RE: Day light savings time

Ok you guys (gender neutral) All this talk of daylight saving and still 
no-one has got the point. Some of you may have seen this before....

"Here we go again, just as we get used to taking the dog for an early
morning walk in the sunshine, just as the perennials are blooming
furiously, just as visits to the beach threaten to win the battle with
keeping the beans clean what happens? You northerners go and 
start pinching our daylight again. Same story, every year about this 
time you guys (gender neutral) get fed up with being shut inside 
watching the outside freeze and allow your dreams of summer to 
take control.
Things are going just a bit too far. Several years ago our country 
was forced to adopt daylight saving in response to your outrageous 
actions. Well this selfish action of yours has reaped a benefit for us.

We are becoming quite practised at the art (science) of daylight
saving now and have managed to save an enormous amount of it 
this year already. We are now in a position to offer our surplus 
daylight (and everyone knows of the great quality of NZ daylight) to 
selected clients in your more northern regions who, round about 
now are driving themselves mad wishing spring would arrive just a 
little early.

I have studied the pattern of your daylight pilfering and know that
each year it takes you a little time to get into the full swing of
things so reckon we have a good couple of months in which to 
conduct some really profitable trade.

The daylight we offer comes in three categories:

1) Farm daylight. This is the lowest grade and is sufficient to allow
farmers to see well enough to work their paddocks (fields) at night 
but don't expect sunburn!

2) Gardeners daylight. Much brighter and warmer. This is just the 
sort of stuff to hasten the onset of spring. Using this will enable some 
folk to have roses flowering before the neighbours crocuses are up!

3) City folks daylight. This is by far the strongest and can 
penetrate concrete walls and the darkest of sun glasses. Suitable for 
a grade yuppies who want a *real* all over tan

Prices available on application. Delivery via the Internet (at the
speed of light)"

Terry Dowdeswell
18 Henderson Ave
Tuakau, New Zealand
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Terry@delphinium.co.nz
http://www.delphinium.co.nz
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> Hi Sue,
> WHen I was growing up in AZ we had daylight savings time and I loved it as
> a kid. You didn't even  come in the house til after 9p.m. we always felt
> like we were getting away with something not having to go to bed til 10 or
> so.  I believe the reason they dropped it was because of the heat. People
> were eager for the sun to go down so the day would cool off. They wanted
> their light to work in the morning when it was cool.   That's just what I
> remember and I may be wrong. Kris in northern CA where it's cool all the
> time.   :   )
> 
> 
> > Why don't these states change?  (Or maybe the better questions is, "Why
> > do all the rest of us change?"
> > 
> > Sue P.
> 
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