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| Thread ID: 143750 | 2017-04-01 04:55:00 | Daylight Saving Ends 2 April 2017 | Bobh (5192) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1433641 | 2017-04-01 22:20:00 | It fades the curtains though! | Richard (739) | ||
| 1433642 | 2017-04-02 02:21:00 | I like it myself, it's just approximating what would happen naturally if we didn't have clocks and got up based on when the sun rose. . I do get up when the sun rises. In summer anyway, in winter it's still dark. So following that theory we should go to bed when the sun sets? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1433643 | 2017-04-02 02:54:00 | It's not a theory, and I am not suggesting when you should or shouldn't get up or go to bed. Just making an observation. In summer the sun rises earlier, simple fact not theory. If we didn't have clocks then the most likely thing to wake you up is daylight, therefore you would get up earlier during the summer months and enjoy more daylight hours. Without a clock to tell you so it's unlikely you would even realise you were getting up much earlier. Any my point point was, I like daylight savings. Nothing to do with the rest of my post, I just do. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1433644 | 2017-04-02 05:10:00 | I do get up when the sun rises. In summer anyway, in winter it's still dark. So following that theory we should go to bed when the sun sets? Its called the circadian rhythm or something. |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1433645 | 2017-04-02 06:59:00 | Its called the circadian rhythm or something. Those darned Circadians have been buzzing away for the last couple of days here..... Ken :devil |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1433646 | 2017-04-02 20:55:00 | The circadian rhythm determines our pattern of sleep/wake. It's not a thing where you need more sleep because there are longer hours of darkness in winter, and need less in summer. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1433647 | 2017-04-03 02:16:00 | You speak for your circadii, mine dance to a different tune . More of a shuffle than a dance . The whole daylight saving thing is a government scheme, very much like Win 10% comes from M$ . As with many dimwit schemes, the targets get to pay and suffer the wounds, while only those who profit from treating those wounds display unbounded enthusiasm for the whole bunch of monkeyshine . And Richard, the curtains fade less, since they are pulled aside out of the direct sun earlier and so experience an hours less sunlight each day . Carpets on the other hand . . . . |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1433648 | 2017-04-03 04:32:00 | It was once common to sleep twice, particularly in winter, getting up for 2-3 hours in the middle of the night. The story I read put our modern 8 hour sleep habits down to Electric lighting changing our night time social life. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1433649 | 2017-04-03 06:28:00 | My main grouch about DST is the hassle of correcting all the clocks we have around the place. Computers & phones are OK, many devices have electronic clocks these days and they all seem to require complicated sequences of button pressing just to set the time. The clock in the car is the worst, and I can never reset it without the manual in front of me. We also have a 16-year old Sony digital clock/radio in the bedroom. On the top it has a button marked DST. Push the button when DST starts and the time advances by an hour. Push it again when DST ends and the time goes back an hour. Why can't they all be like that? | Jayess64 (8703) | ||
| 1433650 | 2017-04-03 23:59:00 | It was once common to sleep twice, particularly in winter, getting up for 2-3 hours in the middle of the night. The story I read put our modern 8 hour sleep habits down to Electric lighting changing our night time social life. I do the opposite now, and sleep for an hour in the middle of the day. It is called my Grandpa snooze. |
Richard (739) | ||
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