DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Waipa Post, Volume XVII, Issue 963, 3 July 1920, Page 4

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

IT took a European war to bring about the adoption of daylight saving in Great Britain. In New Zealand the coal shortage and the power shortage have been necessary to induce the authorities to move in the matter. In Britain and elsewhere the object has been to take fuller advantage of the long stammer daylight, and the clocks have been advanced an hour for the summer six months of the year. The Bill of which notice has been given by the Minister of Internal Affairs proposes a permanent all-the-year round advance in time of half an hour —making New Zealand time exactly twelve hours ahead of Greenwich. A difference of half an hour between standard and real time is not a thing that will involve a very violent interference with the habits of any section of the community. It will, however, very considerably ease off the load on the overburdened electric power and lighting plants of the Dominion by cutting off the bulk of the demand for power about the hour of the winter lighting-up time. The gain will be material, and the reduction of the proposed alteration in time to half an hour should be sufficient to overcome the objections previously advanced to any change in New Zealand standard time.