Daylight $avings Time: "A Minute $aved Is A Minute Earned"

by **GOLTZBORG** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:16 am

Has your government instituted a so-called national seasonal "Daylight Savings Time"; or does your government subscribe to any international regulatory equivalent ?
( DST: a universal scheduling mechanism / system for commerce and travel, etc )
( OOC: Some USA states, and many nations around the Real World, do not subscribe to DST )

by **Amacrei** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:17 am

Amacreians generally view DST as foolish. We don't like to use foolish things, and so we don't use DST.

by **Oceanic Vakiadia** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:19 am

Amacrei wrote:Amacreians generally view DST as foolish. We don't like to use foolish things, and so we don't use DST.

This^

by **Swilatia** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:24 am

We've had how many of these threads? I can count two of them from just one player.

Anyway, we don't have DST as we find the whole idea a bit silly.

by **Mount Shavano** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:27 am

The Front Range uses DST only because the majority of the world does; left to our own devices we probably wouldn't, but it reduces confusion a little and isn't a big deal.

by **Thurask** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:29 am

Yes, we have DST.

by **Savedland** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:30 am

Yes, we use the DTS .

by **GOLTZBORG** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:33 am

Swilatia wrote:
We've had how many of these threads? I can count two of them from just one player.

Anyway, we don't have DST as we find the whole idea a bit silly.

OOC: I can appreciate your point to a great degree; however, with DST being a "Real World" current event (1), and an almost daily infusion of many-many new nations emerging within the various regions of NationStates (2), threads will tend at times to be repeated; and if for nothing else, except for the fact that memories of some are as long as an "inch worm" (3), and to do a "search" takes more time than a post or reply (4).
( I'm not defending repetitions...merely offering several reasonable and possible explainations )
:idea:

by **Fatatatutti** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:33 am

We run on Fatatatutti time. We'll be there when we get there.

We make the best use of daylight by barbecuing around the clock. (Some barbecues come with optional headlights.)

by **Charlotte Ryberg** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:50 am

DST is used in Minoa, from the last Sunday of March to the last Sunday of October.

by **Maraque** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:52 am

Hooray, another duplicate.

We're a tropical nation with little to no variation in the seasons, with a relatively equal amount of sunlight and daylight. We do not observe DST.

We observe Party Time all year round.

by **Neo Athena** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:50 am

We feel that DST is completely arbitrary, and only leads to confusion, therefore we do not observe it.

by **Southeast Chino** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:53 am

Savedland wrote:Yes, we use the DTS .

Thurask wrote:Yes, we have DST.

and so do we

by **Mid Lothian** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:13 am

I've copy-and-pasted my response from this thread, which was opened way back on Friday.

Mid Lothian wrote:Yes - the country shifts forward at 1am in their respective time zone on the last Sunday in March, and goes back at 2am (again, in their respective time zone) on the last Sunday in October. This started during the Mid Lothianian-Chinese War - so that there would be longer manufacturing and farming hours - and nobody bothered repealing it after the end of the Second World War (we were dragged into this, despite a peace pact with the Nazis: they agreed to not fight us, but went back on their word in 1942).

by **Georgism** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:13 am

Yes, in order to stay synchronised with time just across the border.

by **Fjeld** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:22 am

Yes, we have DST.

Daylight $avings Time: "A Minute $aved Is A Minute Earned"

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