SCIENTISTS ON DAYLIGHT SAVING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 115, 8 February 1919, Page 7

SCIENTISTS ON DAYLIGHT SAVING

• By Telegraph-Press Association; ;; ' (i u. „' . Chn ' stchuri:| i, February 7. : lAt the - bcience Congress to-day l)r Adams, Government Astronomer, led a Th"?? 9»;MlgW:eafinff/.-: He stated that he considered that it would be a good move if they could persuade the j .Government to advance, the -.time iri the ' Dominion one half hour all the year round, thus,,making New Zealand time exactly, twelve, hours ahead of Greenwich mean time, instead of eleven and a half fw S (-v Dr, Adams stated that. this, would help astronomers co'n'Sir calculations. ...He -was a great ..believer in the rights of minor-- ■' - a W such: change - e . re made, the • people in -any geographi- i :Ca i shoiild have' the iiglitSav jvhat time they. should., commence work o eeil . d9ne , in Wellington in - . the Public Service,, where the employees tor spme time past had come to work at x 8.30 a.m. and left off at .4.30 p.m. . .. , Alr..H. B. Tripp said,that in any such change as-that proposed ttie people to be considered were those who would,suftU • ru 6 m V vere advanced the people m .Otago and, Southland would They would .have to'commence work.m the darkness. He would prefer to see the time,, altered the other way about. If a change were made, it-should }>e made for the. whole Dominion; it would not work if local fihanges were , made., The speaker considered that the proposal was a political one., The oulv against the. present system ;:came :from the astronomers, arid.. they ' ■ were.all good mathematicians who could easily, work out their problems under'the 1 . present system.' ' ' was ..read from Mr. T. K. congress, lo su'pEort the proposal,and adducing argu.infents in favour of ifi . « &-. Far t Silid ( ,' lat he. aid iiot /. think that a .change should be made _,6olely because it would ;be of. advantage i -Tho position at present ' rwt • OUr i y was ' "isym'metrical. = • b^ l " es ?-«I«y wag from 8 a.m. to 5 ■?;?" .jJw.Mj.fonr' hours passed, before the middlei of tW day and .five'after-it. i ' if cm,lcl re ««- ' late the day so as to have four and a half hours before and four and' a half hs T ddl ° of the 'daWht •period Tho speakec said that ho was during the ."daylight -«av- - ing .period and suffered no inc'onvonii ence owing to it. Dr. Chilton said that while daylight saving had been a siiccess;iii fairly lu«h latitudes it was. less satisfactory each Sc«t«o farther south. -He coulSl not see why local arrangements could not bo made as was at present done in the ®, over , nmE ' l llt ,Hie importance of-alter- -• fl ?®i; 6 - an( l ar 4 tlm e'from eleven and ; of in advance \ ,W.&reenincli mean time, the motion'be- , ug earned by six votes- to .three. '