[H-GEN] Brisbane's timezone

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> That story doesn't make really sense btw. I am not saying that it

Hi Edwin.  Actually it makes perfect sense.  I was there :)

> didn't happen, but look at this time table with the sunrise and
> sunset times for Toronto:
>
>    Date		Sunrise	Sunset		This day
>    Oct 1, 2008		7:16 AM	6:58 PM		11h 42m 06s
>
>    Nov 1, 2008		7:54 AM	6:08 PM		10h 13m 44s

So when I walked out of the house on Nov 1 to catch the 7:50am train it 
was dark.  Daylight saving was still on.

>    Nov 2, 2008		6:55 AM	5:06 PM		10h 11m 06s

When I walked out of the house on Nov 2 to catch the 7:50am train it was 
light.  Daylight saving was off.

Daylight saving caused me to have to walk to the train in the dark for a 
few weeks at the end of of the year.  QED.

> If you are 8.5 hours per day in the office and have one hour of
> travel with the train , you end up with seeing no sun during your

Your assumptions are off.

I can't imagine why you would presume to know the conditions when _I_ walk 
to the train in the morning at any time of year. It comes across to me as 
arrogant.

> travel towards or from the station. This has nothing to do with
> silly people wanting to have DST (which is a shift in the time
> during the summer period), this is just the fact that you don't
> have enough hours with sunlight in the day. And snow is a part of
> the expected weather in that period too, nothing you can do about
> it.

Yes I'd noticed snow was a characteristic of the region I live in.

>> DST is largely a post-WWII invention.
>
> It was first done in April 1916 (that's before the end of WWI, so
> very much before WWII) in the biggest part of Western-Europe. To
> change the time *during summer*.

Yes I got my wars mixed up.  I was going to double check this but didn't. 
There you go.

DST is largely a post WWI invention.  Notice I said largely - DST was 
proposed several times before WWI but it didn't kick off widely until 
after that.

Some years ago I placed a cap on the number of posts I will make to a 
non-technical discussion.  I've found it to be a huge time-saver.  I won't 
comment in this threat again.

Rob

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