Daylight Saving Time

[MarkV]

Don't like it at all It should be in winter

[Barry_White]

Like I said all the Banana Benders wont like it, but they are just discovering the poll, because they just got up an hour late and they are missing out on everything.

[E. maculata]

I love daylight saving, it's terrific, great.

P.S. did I mention I'm in favour of it

[ptc]

it means its getting warmer here.[Tas]
and it does not fade the curtains.
ex qld.
ptc

[bitingmidge]

, because they just got up an hour late and they are missing out on everything.

Bazza,

Living in Qld, we already have everything.

What is there that disappears so quickly where you live that you feel compelled to miss out on all those glorious zeds??


(This is the closest smiley I can get to a smug look)
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[silentC]

Living in Qld, we already have everything

Pffft

[Caliban]

I used to like it but when my kids were littlish I came to hate it because they never wanted to go to bed when it was broad daylight, the next day they'd be cranky from not enough sleep, going to bed at 9 pm was too late for the poor possums. Also trying to get them up and organised to catch the 8 am school bus was a nightmare.
Now they are bigger I don't have any reason to dislike daylight savings apart from the curtains fading, the grass requiring extra mowing and the smug looks from midge.

[Termite]

What is there that disappears so quickly where you live that you feel compelled to miss out on all those glorious zeds??

Time man, time. I'm 60 and the clock is running pretty fast.

[bitingmidge]

Pffft

Baked Bean sangers for lunch again Silent??




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[silentC]

Nah, that causes more of a 'brrrrup' sound. But then I do have a leather chair

Now here's question for you older chaps: do you reckon time passes more quickly the older you get? I mean, I'm nearly 40 and the months are flying by at a frightening pace. When I was a kid, a day lasted a week, especially when school was in. Why do you think that happens?

[Termite]

Silent, for you the months are flying, for me the years are flying. I dont know why and I only get depressed thinking about it. Maybe because I'm on the downhill run things pass quicker.

[bitingmidge]

Silent, for you the months are flying, for me the years are flying. I dont know why.

Ahh well I'm glad you all asked.

I've just put on my brightest shirt to give me some credibility while I answer that one.

It's all about relativity you see.

When you are very very young, Christmas takes for EVER to come around, and so it is for distances (are we there yet???), we only have the length of our own life experience to measure all other time-distances against.

One MONTH for a three year old is actually three percent of the time that person has been on earth, and probably almost 10% of the time it has experienced rational thought. (Some would disagree about the "rational" bit)

As we get older our perception of the passage of time continues to be measured by our own experience against the only baseline we have: our own life, and so as we get older the same period of time becomes a smaller percentage of that baseline. (I've nearly lost myself at this point.)

So one month for a 40 year old is 0.2% of its time on earth, for a 60 year old it is 0.14% and so on.

Soooo:
A three year old has to wait for a period equal to 33% of its life experience between Christmases, while a 60 year old only has to wait 1.6% of its life for the same time to pass.

Incredibly, for a 60 year old, time passes TWENTY TIMES faster than for a three year old.

Thank you, you've been a patient audience!!!

Dr P

[Termite]

Incredibly, for a 60 year old, time passes TWENTY TIMES faster than for a three year old.

AAHA! That only works on the weekends in the shed.

[Ben from Vic.]

Midge

Thats quite simple but profound. I'm impressed.

It is true I presume?

If you don't mind me asking, were did you pick up this information?


Ben.

[craigb]

Midge,

Precisely.

Ben,

It's self evident