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[Johan]

Daylight-Saving Time would allow us to make better use of daylight, by moving an hour of daylight to the evening from morning. Why do we not follow this international trend?

[mark clark]

As good as it may sound it would be supporting the global warming and messing up of this planet as it is. Im not some big enviromentalist, but if you want some of the documentaries and read some of the articles about day light savings and how its having an impact on this world you probably wouldnt support it

[Genesistt]

I actually lived in a country with "Daylight Savings Time". Namibia has it. It doesn't work.

Or at least it doesn't work if you do it at the same time as England and the US.

Plain and simple, you start your day later and that's great, because you get up when the sun is already shining, but you go home in the dark, when the sun's already setting or have already set. And that's just horrible.

It has a physical and emotional effect on you, because your day feels so much longer when you go home in the dark.

And of course if you do it during our summer the international companies loose up to 4 hours of business because of the time difference. Not practical. So I don't think it would really work here.

But that's just my opinion.

[Richard Weeden]

A relevant news article...

Time zone proposal for South Africa criticised

Critics have warned that a problems created by a proposal being considered by government to split the country into different time zones in order to reduce electricity usage would far outweigh the benefits.

Read the African Energy News Review report
http://www.energynews.co.za/web_main/article.php?story=20080317165356372
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