Just a reminder to all you Aussies here that daylight savings begins tonight, so if you have it in your state remember to wind your clocks forward an hour before going to bed.

God I hate losing that hour, but it is nice to have the daylight for longer at night. Man next week I have to start work at 530 am so it's gonna be fun going to work in the dark again, I was just getting used to it being light when I left home in the mornings.

Is it the end of daylight savings in the Northern hemisphere?

Thanks for the reminder, I would have totally forgotten.....

Why is it that they say you should change your clock at 2am? Im gunna lose an hour of getting para tonight..... :devil:

I guess it has to happen at some time LOL. Maybe it's because not many people are working at time of night so it doesn't muck up too many peoples working hours, I dunno.

In Australia you have Daylight Savings time? We in the US are turning our clocks back to Standard time. I forgot you guys are going into summer while we are going into winter.

Yep we sure do, I think alot of countries observe daylight savings.

Ah, the beautiful sunshine is here again!!!

ah, yes daylight savings in Australia-the only country to have 11 different time zones at the same time S**

I still think that one hour a day for the entire 6 months adds up to ummm 6 months of one hour accumulated means we lose up 6 months of one hour per day haha..j/k

The animals hate it....

The farmers hate it.

The heat---oh the heat...100+ ;-bush fires, sea water and river water....

Still in the high 90's at 2am, ah yes sweat at 2 am haha...

Stinking hot and flies, man those flies right now are very bad.

Oh yes and the cheap-summer fuel which makes our cars go sblat-splutter hehe...

Dams evaporating this summer could mean we drink urine treated water sooner than later. Sort of like Pepsi meets the Green Sludge, who meets Mr Happy-meets a fresh glass an a half of fresh cream silt!

Ah yes summer cant wait....its when the greenies go underground for the bushfire season.

Where the Full Moon brings out many many weirdos who light fires.

Ah summer in Australia there is nothing quite like it...

Just a reminder, it is actually "daylight saving", no "s" at the end.
our daylight saving just ended....hello darkness :cry:

LOL TC, I agree, I hate summer, but I love spring. The weather right now is perfect.

T.c YOU CRACK ME UP!!:D:D :rofl:

11 different time zones here in Australia????? I dont think so......
Yes its quite likely we will be drinking treated piss down here within a few years....
You forgot all those lovely snakes that wake up and are really hungry.....
And how your forced to drink heaps of booze at the cricket.....
Bye bye silly greenies.....
And we also have to put up with women walking around in bikinis and mini skirts.....Damn Summer is a bitch.........

Okee dokee.. to be taken with a grain of salt... For the Aussie's here, I came across this little gem on an Aussie joke page a while ago...

We Are Australians!

WE, the people of a free nation of blokes, sheilas and the occasional wanker. We come from many lands (although a few too many of us come from New Zealand) and although we live in the best country in the world, we reserve the right to bitch and moan about it whenever we bloody like.

We are One Nation but we're divided into many States:

First, there's Victoria, named after a queen who didn't believe in lesbians. Victoria is the realm of Mossimo turtlenecks, cafe latte, grand-final day and big horse races. Its capital is Melbourne, whose chief marketing pitch is that "it's livable". At least that's what they think. The rest of us think it is too bloody cold and wet.

Next, there's NSW, the realm of pastel shorts, macchiato with sugar, thin books read quickly and millions of dancing queens. Its capital, Sydney, has more queens than any other city in the world and is proud of it. Its mascots are Bondi lifesavers who pull their Speedos up their cracks to keep the left and right sides of their brains separate.

Down south we have Tasmania, a state based on the notion that the family that bonks together stays together. In Tassie, everyone gets an extra chromosome at conception. Maps of the State bring smiles to the sternest faces. It holds the world record for a single mass shooting, which the Yanks can't seem to beat no matter how often they try.

South Australia is the province of half-decent reds, a festival of foreigners and bizarre axe murders. SA is the state of innovation. Where else can you so effectively reuse country bank vaults and barrels as in Snowtown, just out of Adelaide (also named after a queen). They had the Grand Prix, but lost it when the views of Adelaide sent the Formula One drivers to sleep at the wheel.

Western Australia is too far from anywhere to be relevant. It's main claim to fame is that it doesn't have daylight saving because if it did all the men would get erections on the bus on the way to work. WA was the last state to stop importing convicts and many of them still work there in the government and business.

The Northern Territory is the red heart of our land. Outback plains, sheep stations the size of Europe, Kangaroos, Jackeroos, Emus, Uluru and dusty kids with big smiles. It also has the highest beer consumption of anywhere on the planet and its creek beds have the highest aluminium content of anywhere too. Although the Territory is the centre piece of our national culture, few of us live there and the rest prefer to fly over it on our way to Bali.

And there's Queensland... While any mention of God seems silly in a document defining a nation of half-arsed sceptics, it is worth noting that God probably made Queensland - it's beautiful one day and perfect the next. Why he filled it with duckheads (say it like an All Black) remains a mystery.

Oh yes, and there's the ACT (Canberra). The least said the better.

We, the citizens of Oz, are united by Highways, whose treacherous twists and turns kill more of us each year than murderers. We are united in our lust for international recognition. Not that we're whingeing; we leave that to our Pommie immigrants. We want to make "no worries mate" our national phrase, "she'll be right mate" our national attitude and "Waltzing Matilda" our national anthem. (So what if it's about a sheep-stealing crim who commits suicide??)

We love sport so much our news readers can read the death toll from a sailing race and still tell us who's winning. And we're the best in the world at all the sports that count, like cricket, netball, rugby, AFL, roo-shooting, two-up and horse racing. We also have the biggest rock, the tastiest pies, the blackest aborigines and the worst-dressed Olympians in the known universe.

We shoot, we root, we vote. We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime. Even though we might seem a closed-minded, sports-obsessed little people, at least we feel better for it.

I am, you are, we are Australian

Dingo
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Yip clocks went back one hour at the weekend in Scotland.....so by my reckoning that puts you 11 hours ahead of us now when it was only 9 previously.

Ben

Well that depends what state you live in Australia... Not all states have daylight savings and there is a 2 hour difference from the East Coast of Australia to the West Coast but now it's 3 hours difference instead of 2 hours.

I used to be 10 hours ahead of you in time and now am 11 hours. But people living up the border from me are now 1 hour behind me where last week they used to be on the same time zone as me. How's that for simplicity? About 15 minutes ago... The main cities of each state here except they forgot Tasmania. Typical eh? But Tasmania has slightly different start for it's daylight savings and they started theirs at the beginning of October.

Australia - Australian Capital Territory - Canberra Mon 9:16 PM

Australia - New South Wales - Sydney Mon 9:16 PM

Australia - Victoria - Melbourne Mon 9:16 PM

Australia - South Australia - Adelaide Mon 8:46 PM

Australia - Queensland - Brisbane Mon 8:16 PM

Australia - Northern Territory - Darwin Mon 7:46 PM

Australia - Western Australia - Perth Mon 6:16 PM


Dingo
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The only time that matters though Dingo - when do the bars open?

Ben

Ah classic Dingo, that was a good read.

Hey I didn't know NT was half an hour behind SA, I thought we were on the same time zone :confused: .

Ben the bars are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in Australia, you will love it!!

Thats right I watch, and most bars have a happy hour from 10am to Noon. I love beer with my cornflakes. Silly Aussies with all our different times. Dunno where you got this idea of Victorians wearing Mossimo turtlenecks Ms Dingo. A Damn horse race that stops the whole State here and I didnt watch it! Only in Australia.....

Yip I thought of your two when I posted that... yeah it's a classic isn't Keegan, all those Mossimo turtlenecks walking around the streets of Melbourne.. lol.. Not sure where that comes, I think from one of your tv commentators from the dim past or from the ethnic population.... But hey..... Come on, don't be shy, admit you secretly love them too...

I Watch, Northern Territory doesn't have daylight savings thats why they aint on the same time as you for the moment... Lucky for parts of NSW that your state has daylight savings coz I'm on the border of NSW and SA time zone and often cross the time change line when at the mines. Now wouldn't that be a bigger mess if either SA or NSW didn't have daylight savings. I think too, because Queensland doesn't have daylight savings that those who live in the parts of QLD which have the same timezone as you, would still be going by QLD time and not by SA daylight savings time? There really are heaps of different time zones... :eek:

Well there you go Keegan.. a horse race today which not only stopped your whole state, but the whole country. I'm just back from the celebration at the local watering hole.. errrr... yeah.... the race was 7 hours ago... Actually, I ended up having an in depth chat with some half drunken girl who poured her heart out to me, not that dramatically though, and asked me why her boyfriend was flirting with the barmaid. I said, no worries mate, they all do when they get a bit piddled, just so they can bludge a few free grogs from the bar.

Bummer.... my horse lost and that's my gambling done for the year until the first Tuesday in November next year. They actually had a poll going in my state on some news thingy asking if people think Melbourne Cup Day should be a public holiday for the whole country, the yearly race is that popular and it's become an Aussie culture cringe thingy... and you didn't watch it! Cripes...

Dingo
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Thanks, guys. I learned more about Australia in the last ten minutes reading this thread than I did in all my years of geography classes. I never look forward to the annual descent into winter but, compared to an Aussie summer, I think I'll just shut up and shiver like a man.

S

I've still got my alarm clock set an hour ahead...gives the illusion of sleeping in...ah, the greatest thing about daylight saving.

Hey Ms Dingo, do you think since Makybe Diva has won three Melbourne Cups in a row, it should be stuffed and put next to Phar Lap? Maybe even take Phar Lap's place as he didnt win 3 Cups? Yeah I too just got back from celebrations haha! :horse: :cheers: