DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Waipawa Mail, Volume L, Issue 43, 28 December 1928, Page 1

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

AUSTRALIAN SCHEME. SUGGESTED GRADUAL PROCESS. SYDNEY, December (j. During the war the New South Wales Parliament passed a Daylight Saving Act, and made it operative by the simple process ol' 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 The Act was repealed by the Government which succeeded it.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 in genious 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 at the G.P.O. and on the railways and tramways, should he advanced just two or three minutes a day according to the rising of the sun. And, hey presro, by the time Sydney was in mid-summer 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, and would alter them accordingly, and bettes still, would be cutting down its lighting expenses at home. Then, by reversing the process on mid-summer day, the public would return to chronological normal by mid-winter, again without being aware of the fact.