No to Daylight Savings Vote

Sun setting over Cottesloe Beach

by sunrise.seven.

So it's a No.

We won't be getting Daylight Savings this Summer or any other Summer for a good few years.

I have to say that my family are quite sad about this.

It means that my two testostorone filled boys won't be able to kick a football around the garden with their Dad after he gets home from work. 

It means that they will wake up early (as the Sun is going to rise at 5am which is the middle of the night as far as I'm concerned), so let's hope that the wooden blinds and black out linings on their curtains work! 

It means that we wont be able to go down to the beach to watch the sun setting after tea as it will be setting during tea time instead. 

I've heard plenty from people who like to get up early and go for a walk. Early being very early. And my husband knows of someone who likes to go for a swim at 5am. 5am??? Isn't that still shark feeding time?

What is it about early mornings here? Why do people have to go for a walk at 5am?

Apparently, according to most NO voters, the good thing is that my boys will now go to bed on time. Oh wait, my boys already went to bed on time because I don't use the "the sun has gone to bed and therefore so must you" line on them, we tend to use a clock and therefore time in our house. Anyway, after they've been playing in the garden with Dad, they're tired out and want to sleep. No, hang on, they won't be tired out now becasue they won't be playing in the garden with Dad because it's going to be dark. So maybe my boys won't be tired enough for bed and then get woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning because of the light.

Excellent.

I know it's a democratic vote, but with nearly half of the voters saying yes it means that nearly half are unhappy with the outcome which can't be right either.

I have a gut feeling that there are plenty of permanet residents out there that would have voted yes but couldn't because they can't vote. Maybe this will get them motivated to become citizens? After all if you don't have a voice, you can't complain.

Comments

[Carol Marshall]

Andy says, "What time does it go dark, then?"

I want to know, is Daylight Saving like British Summer Time? Don't you get light evenings in Summer without changing the clocks? (It's not going dark until about 9.30pm here now, so it would be 8.30pm without BST and way past bedtime for most primary school kids). Shame that the boys won't be able to play out after dinner.

[Claire Sutton]

Daylight savings is exactly like BST but because we're on a different latitude to the UK we don't get the really late nights of light, we're more on a par with southern Spain.

With Daylight Savings we get to about 8.30pm max so now it will be 7.30pm max, more around 7pm really. As husband returns home from work anywhere between 6.30pm and 7pm he'll be getting home just as it's dark.

SO we'll get the sun coming up from 4.30am onwards and dark at 7pm instead of the last 3 years (when Daylight savings was on a trial) when it was getting light at 5.30am and dark at 8pm.

Not good.

[Steve]

Geez thats so poor of the WA people to vote against daylight saving. We moved to NSW for 12 months and are due to return in January 2010 but I am having second thoughts now after this. I thought WA had finally seen the light (literally) and decided "no I dont want it to be like midday at 5am" but alas they have failed miserably with their secessionist attitude to reality. Very sad day for Perth.