SUMMER TIME

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 86, 8 October 1930, Page 10

SUMMER TIME

BEGINS AGAIN-'ON SUNDAY

Ou Sunday morning next, ut*2 a.m., theoretically at any rate, all the clocks in the Dominion will bo advanced half an hour to inaugurate the reign of Summer Time, which will last until the third Sunday in March. Practically, however, in most households tho advancing of the hands of the timepieces is likely to be performed late on Saturday night or a bit later tliaii 2 a.m. on Sunday morning. Tho novelty of Summer Time and of juggling with the hours has worn off by this time, after three years' experience of this beneficial measure. A very largo majority of the Dominion's population have come to look forward to'this extra half-hour of daylight, and many would welcome a reversion to the full hour of daylight saving as was in force in 1927, when the Dominion first adopted Summer Time. But in .1928 and 1929, in order to effect a compromise with the opponents of Summer Time, Parliament enacted that half an hour was to be the limit of advancement of the clocks, and last year the measure was made a permanency. Previously from, year to year tho public did not know until practically the last moment whether Summer Tiino was going to operate or not. Now, however, they know, owing to last year's Act, that -it comes into force every year, on the second Sunday in October and extends until the third Sunday in. March. But there is nothing to prevent a future Parliament from, extending tho half-hour to a full hour, thus bringing New Zealand into line with England and other countries. The advancement of the clocks on Sunday morning entails no serious inconvenience to anyone." Travellers by train or steamer during that night will find that their journey has, by ;the clock, taken half, an hour longer than usual, and those working on night shifts will find that their spell of work is actually thirty minutea less than usual. Otherwise overything is normal, except that tho sun will not rise quite as early on Sunday morning as it did on the previous Saturday, and it will seem to set half an hour later. The sun on Sunday next will set at about 6.45 p.m. (Summer Time), compared witli a setting on Saturday at about 6.15 p.m. (Standard Time), so on. Sunday daylight will be extended until well after 7 p.m., giving longer time for outdoor occupations. Sunrise by Standard Time on Sunday would be about 5 a.m., but Summer. Time will postpone the rising of tho luminary until about 5.30 a.m.. It will be everybody's earnest hope that by Sunday next daylight will be worth saving and that there will not be any such Irishism as Summer Time operating during the continuation of Winter.