SUMMER-TIME EXPLAINED

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1927, Page 10

SUMMER-TIME EXPLAINED

(To ilia Editor.)

Sir,—Many people seem to have very nazy ideas about the new summer-tim* Perhaps my interpretation may be of uae to them.

It is proposed to put the clock on an hour qn 15th October, co that our after* noons may be an hour longer. Our morning sunshine will be an hour less, but aa most people spend the early hours in bed, the sunshine will not bo missed. Many dairy farmers object because they fail to see what will really happen. They are afraid it will be a worse calamity than aa earthquake or a tidal wave; for all farmers will be ruined, they will not get a proper night's rest, they are suit to miss their train once a month when they go to town., and they will have to go out with a lantern in the morning to find the cows. Canterbury farmers, who have more than a grain of common sense, pay their men by the hour during harvest time, and work as long hours as they can. The sun will rise at the same time a# it has done for generations on 15th October, but, according to the new summer time it will seem to be an hour later. On 15th October the sun will rise at SH lOmin a.m., ordinary tune (present or New Zealand mean time), but our clocks will say 0.10 a.m. According to our present tune the sun rises at 6.10 a.m. on 12tli September. Now, if men have for ages survived a sunrise at 6.10 a.m. on 12th September, I hope they will survive a tunrise at G.lO a.m. on 15th October, when the weather all round is much warmer IE children manage to be in time for school ou 12th September when the sun rices at 6.10 a.m they will be in time on 15tU . October, when the sun rises at the same tune, according to summer time. If dairy farmers find their cows on 12th September, with the sun rising at 6.10 a.m., they will not require a torchlight on 15th October summer time. Every day the sun will rise earlier till midsunimer. On 11th December, the sun will rise at 4.16, ordinary time, 5.16 sum* m nr me< and ** will not set *"1 8.31 p,m. What lone summer evenings we shall spend outside! Men 1 will get up as usual to be in time for their occupations. Office hours will be the same as before, trains will arrive and leave on 15th October, as they do on 12th September, and some "benighted" dairy farmers will wonder that the world still goes round.—l am, etc., COMMON" 'SEffSF