DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 164, 13 July 1928, Page 14

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

AN ALTERNATIVE SCHEME

The astronomical aspects of daylight saving were discussed by Mr. E. G. Jones in an address to the astronomical section of the Auckland Institute. He suggested as an alternative scheme to the present one the putting of the clock forward half an hour in the summer and back half an hour in the winter.

Mr. Jones pointed out that there was a uniform time for the whole of New Zealand so that the time shown by the clock was often different froin the correct time. The further a country was away from the equator tbe more it benefited by daylight saving. Those who liked daylight saving were those with fixed and regular hours, and those who opposed it were those with long and irregular hours. The director of school hygiene had reported that the scheme had been of much benefit to the health of school children. Another advantage was that it saved an hour's artificial lighting. There were no disadvantages from the astronomical point of view. The Surveyor-General had suggested making a two hours' difference between summer and winter by putting the clock back half an hour in the winter and an hour and a-half forward in the summer.