Hi! Holger,

On 10/25/2014 09:40 AM, you wrote:

 PQ>> Nearly Saturday.  :)  And, not long till the Gold Coast 600(?)
 PQ>> starts...

 HG> Right you are. Motors TV will show a replay of the race at 21:20 tonight
 HG> and then a couple of times tomorrow. The replay is 2h 10min long.

Maybe you get an edited version.  (Lucky you!)  Both days were live
telecasts of at least five hours each day, with one or two extra hours
prior to the actual racing.

Well, the best man won!  The bloke who should have won at Bathurst. Luckily
he had enough go-go juice this time.  :)

 HG> The coming night we'll go back to standard time

Ah, we don't have that nonsense here.  There are certain factions, amongst
the refugees who have moved north from our southern states no doubt, that
are pushing for our state to go with DST.

A recent TV/newspaper poll showed up major differences of opinion of
populations close to our southern border, compared with people to the north
on my locale.  We've already knocked it back in a previous referendum
(15-20 years ago?) and I don't think the notion would survive in the next
one.

OTOH, if the politicians present some region-based 'ticket' then there
could be a split of populations, using different time zones.  It's do-able
but an ugly idea nevertheless.

Of course, the whole idea of DST runs at odds with our environment.  We
have the highest incidence of skin cancers in the world's population. And,
the idiots want to increase exposure time for the people.

Stupidity: the second most common element in the universe.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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