Battle for Daylight
J HAT THEY SAID AT THE TIME (from 1ZB, Sunday afternoons) kept up its standard with the programme on Daylight Saving. Like its predecessors, it recreated, with a nice sense of the ridiculous, the rough-and-tumble of parliamentary debate, the rotundity of the newspaper editorial, and the explosive irritation of writers of letters-to-the-edi-tor. And it illustrated very well the universal irrationality of the human race with regard to time. We cannot help feeling that what the clock and calendar measure out is "real.’ We become abruptly older at New Years and birthdays; we grudge the days that disappear at the dateline; and, faced with a change in the calendar, we should no doubt riot for our lost eleven days, like our ancestors of 200 years ago. The battle of daylight saving was fought out with a passion worthy of a serious subject-
T.A.B., for example. As a Wellington newspaper put it at the time: "Human nature is curiously conservative when it comes to a change of habit." ne
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 10
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172Battle for Daylight New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 10
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