DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Otago Witness, Issue 3898, 27 November 1928, Page 70

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

SUGGESTED GRADUAL PROCESS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, November 15. During the war New South Wales passed a Daylight Saving Act and made it operative by the simple process of advancing all clocks one hour on a certain date. It gave the community another hour of daylight after its work was over. The Act was repealed by the Government which succeeded it. An ingenious means of again reverting to daylight saving, without the labyrinthic processes of Parliament, and without the public being conscious of the reform by summarily and suddenly advancing all clocks one hour, has now been suggested in Sydney. The idea is certainly intriguing. The proposal is that all public clocks, such as the G.P.O. and on the railways and tramways, should be advanced just two or three minutes a day, according to the rising of the sun. And, hey presto, by the time Sydney was in midsummer it would be ending its work at 2 or 3 o’clock in the afternoon, with three or four hours of daylight left for recreation. The public, °by this happy * process, would not have noticed the alteration; would, in fact, simply have imagined that its clocks and watches were losing a few minutes daily, an . would, alter them accordingly, and, better still, would be cutting down its lighting expenses at home. Then, by reversing the process on midsummer day, the public would return to chronological normal by midwinter, again without being aware of the fact.