‘13 Change the clock?

[Cormanus]

We don't change clocks here in Queensland, either. The one down side I've found is that, in the summer, listening to national radio stations by streaming means they're an hour ahead. Curiously, if you listen to them on a digital receiver, they're at local time. I don't understand why.

[Houtman_imp]

I just leave the clocks on my bikes on the summer time , I remember in the winter that it is 1 hour ahead.

[Nortoon_imp]

The advantage of DST in the winter is that the sun rises sooner warming and drying the roads. Actually the sun does not change, we just get up an hour later.

This is an example when we worked. On December 6th the sun would rise at 7:27 DST. So we drove on increasing warm and dry roads during daylight hours. If the clocks were not changed, on December 6th the sunrise would rise at 8:27 EST. As we would leave for work before that, the roads might be slippery from an over night snowfall and we are driving in the dark.

Driving home it may be dark. But the city and traffic have plowed the roads and the sun has had all day to melt the snow and dry the roads.

If continues to snow all day, the traffic is at a crawl reducing the risk of accidents. Unfortunately it takes twice as long to get home and you have a late supper. Unless you were as smart as Penny and Paul. They only drove a short distance to their favourite uptown Italian restaurant. After slowly munching down the city's best Italian food and Caesar Salad along with a bottle of fine wine, they drove home fat and happy on empty plowed streets.