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From: Hatunen on 24 Feb 2010 18:28 On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:58:49 +0000, Mike Barnes <mikebarnes(a)bluebottle.com> wrote: >It seems to me that most people have the choice of spending more of >their waking hours in darkness or in light, but no-one seems to have the >choice about whether the clocks change. I once worked here in Arizona as a construction engineer on a power plant for a company based in Seattle; most of the personnel came from Seattle, which does go on daylight time. When time for daylight time arrived, the bosses moved our work hours an hour earlier. I found out it was so they had time to get in a round of golf after work. It was a 75 mile commute taking about an hour and a quarter each way. I did not appreaciate having my wake up time moved back from 6:30am to 5:30am. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
From: Trond Engen on 24 Feb 2010 18:33 benlizro(a)ihug.co.nz: > I just realized the other day that the reason I've seen so little of > the live coverage (compared to Beijing) is that it's coming on from > early morning (Vancouver is currently 3 hours later than us) to some > time in the afternoon, when I almost never watch TV. I'm not > particularly a sports fiend, but when the Beijing events were running > right through prime time, you couldn't help occasionally seeing > something. The events in the Vancouver Olympics start surptisingly early, local time, so I suppose they've been scheduled for European prime time. Norwegian TV has live transmissions from around seven to midnight every day. So does Swedish. -- Trond Engen
From: Peter Moylan on 24 Feb 2010 18:50 Evan Kirshenbaum wrote: > > Interestingly, Labour Day [in Australia] is all over the calendar: > > Mar. 7th Western Australia > Mar. 8th Victoria > May 3rd Queensland > Oct. 4th ACT, NSW, SA > > I don't see it listed for the Tasmanian sites (Launceston and Hobart) > The original form of this holiday was called "eight hour day". (I think it's still called that in Tasmania.) I'm not sure when it became a public holiday in Australia, but I think it was well before the custom of using May Day as a celebration of workers' rights. Because Australia already had an Eight Hour Day, May Day never became a public holiday the way it did in most other countries. That's part of the explanation of why it's not celebrated on the traditional Labour Day (1st May). The other part of the explanation is that public holidays are controlled by the states, and the different states have shown no urge to move towards a more uniform system. -- Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org For an e-mail address, see my web page.
From: Robert Bannister on 24 Feb 2010 19:32 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > On Feb 24, 8:14 am, Cheryl <cperk...(a)mun.ca> wrote: >> jmfbahciv wrote: >>> Michael Press wrote: >>>> In article <7ufdetFoc...(a)mid.individual.net>, Cheryl <cperk...(a)mun.ca> >>>> wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>> But we still lack a February holiday, unless we have a big enough >>>>> snowstorm. >>>> February is the cruelest month. >>> February is the longest month. I thought US had President's Day in >>> February now. >>> /BAH >> But I'm in Canada, so we don't celebrate President's Day at all, >> whenever it comes. I'd make do with a 'mid-February Holiday' in honour >> of nothing in particular if I could be guaranteed a break in that dreary >> month. > > We used to have Lincoln's Birthday on Feb 12 and Washington's Birthday > on Feb 22. A while ago, they were rolled into one movable feast. > >> I suppose we could adopt Valentine's Day as a public holiday. > > A holiday in honor of a single industry? What's significant about Mr > (formerly St) Valentine? Single industry? Cards, flowers, perfume, clothing, restaurants, jewellery... I think it must be very important to a wide range of industry. -- Rob Bannister
From: sjdevnull on 24 Feb 2010 19:49
On Feb 24, 6:50 pm, Peter Moylan <gro.nalyomp(a)retep> wrote: > Evan Kirshenbaum wrote: > > > Interestingly, Labour Day [in Australia] is all over the calendar: > > > Mar. 7th Western Australia > > Mar. 8th Victoria > > May 3rd Queensland > > Oct. 4th ACT, NSW, SA > > > I don't see it listed for the Tasmanian sites (Launceston and Hobart) > > The original form of this holiday was called "eight hour day". (I think > it's still called that in Tasmania.) I'm not sure when it became a > public holiday in Australia, but I think it was well before the custom > of using May Day as a celebration of workers' rights. Because Australia > already had an Eight Hour Day, May Day never became a public holiday the > way it did in most other countries. > > That's part of the explanation of why it's not celebrated on the > traditional Labour Day (1st May). Wait, Labour day is in May some places? (Googles--yep) In the US, Memorial Day and Labor Day are sort of the bookends for summer/outdoor activity--Memorial Day is the last Monday of May, while Labor Day is the first Monday of September. I know we're lacking a "u", but Labour Day in Canada is also the first Monday of September. |