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Upon which your clocks must be set back by an hour to read as 02:00 on 30.10.2011.
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and thank God, too. I can't even drag my ass out of bed in the mornings before 8:00 anymore because it's so dark. I'm really looking forward to DST ending.
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Thanks for the reminder as I surely would have forgotten. I really do hate the hour changes twice a year....
And poor Mrs. G. is working a nightshift. Ouch.
It was fun while it lasted, with 10pm night still being bright and day break was sooo early, back in March.
Link to Public Holidays for the remainder of 2011, Switzerland.
I can summarise that for you;
Boxing Day
That's it
I don ́t think Boxing Day here is like it is in the UK or Australia, with lots of bargains and sales. Shops might be closed ( unofficially observed as a holiday ) except perhaps RailCity etc.
I always used to like to work the night when clocks went back......it meant that we could all have a bit more time to sleep on our break and get paid.
This daylight saving is absolute rubbish...why should we impose an artificial jetlag upon our bodies twice a year..just because some farmer needed more light back in the days.
It's two free opportunities to moan a year. Without DST we'd be bored and criticising mods. Or something.
We ought to have more, me thinks.
Yeah- when I was in school it meant I could put off my math homework another hour .
Actually for farmers it sucks- the animals don't know from clocks . It came about to conserve resources by taking advantage of more daylight hours. Doesn't really make much sense when you think about it.
I say ferk them saving hours...!!
Not really jetlag, the hour shifts occurs during the year, it's not like the earth's rotational speed changed to account for that hour.
Didn't the Americans recently extend their DST to save loads of energy?
if they have to change it, i would be better if they made clocks that automatically incremented a little bit each day so that you don't have to make a single big adjustment.
For a few years I worked at a place that was right on the border of Ohio and Indiana (USA for those ignorant of the magnificent American Midwest). The state line was also the date line, so at one point in town you could cross the street and it was an hour earlier . And conveniently there was a liquor store right over the border .
That wouldn't work here, the Swiss hate being late.
Imagine if Swiss cantons decided to implement their own scheme of determining the time and DST, as some states in ( the much larger ) Australia did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Australia
Particularly QLD and WA.
Move to a Catholic canton. Next Tuesday's a holiday in Luzern and many people are taking Monday off as well. So Zürich shops will be extra crowded.