Hi David and everyone!

How are you today?
Yesterday, there were bird droppings on my wash hanging outside!
I needed to wash them again... well, no choice :D

Let me answer this week's topic.
1) I Googled about why Japan has not introduced daylight saving time (DST).

There are some reasons.
Japan already tried to have DST from 1948 to 1951. Then, it didn't work.
Most people were poor after the war. People didn't have enough food, so even if people finished their work one hour earlier, they still had to struggle with hunger.
They tried to sleep with hungry bellies and they couldn't sleep because there was still bright sunshine.
People couldn't have a lot of leisure during this difficult era.
And, I read some people had to work a lot of overtime because they thought if it was light they had to work.

It is different era than that time, but there are negative comments about DST on the internet.

One of reasons is, some Japanese people think it won't save a lot of electricity.
If people wake up earlier, then they might not use lights as much, but they may use air conditioning longer than usual because the day is longer.

There are positive comments as well.
The sun rises around 3:30 am in Hokkaido. One Japanese business consultant said,
Hokkaido should try to have DST.
I think it seems difficult because Japan is a small country and has only one time zone.

For example, if companies in Hokkaido start one or two hours earlier, then Hokkaido would have to wait for another prefecture to start, so it seems it doesn't make sense to start only in Hokkaido.

2) To tell the truth, I prefer DST.
My area now uses the system, so the sky still bright even at 9 pm!
When I was working in Japan, I often had to work overtime. I was really happy when I could go home during the daylight!
So if Japan has DST, people who have to work overtime can see the sunshine after their work!
I hope overtime work is not get longer because of the system!
Also, kids can go home when it is bright, so I think it's safe.

Well, thanks for reading my long comment.
There are a lot of articles about DST on the internet and they are very interesting!

Please have a great this week!

Animal Farm

P.S. (Animal) Farmers could have more time plant and harvest with DST :-)

•  Animal Farm
• 2011年7月12日 15:19

Hi David and everyone,

I ate out with my sisters, her family, and my family yesterday. My eldest sister has every Monday off, so we often dine out on Monday evenings. Apparently, my niece who is in the first-year of high school got her first boyfriend on July 7, so I asked her a lot of questions about her boyfriend, and she happily showed me his pictures on her cell phone. I wish I could go back to my youth!

Anyway, here are my thoughts on the questions.

1) Do you know why Japan has not introduced daylight saving time?

No, I don't. Maybe it's confusing to change our schedules?

2) Would you be in favour of having daylight saving time in Japan? If not, why not?

Hmm, I'm not sure if daylight saving time would be good for me or how it would affect my life. "Summer time" means that you have to wake up one hour earlier than usual, doesn't it? I already have to get up early to make lunch for my son every morning, so I don't want to get up earlier. I'm not a morning person..

See you soon,

Tomo

•  Tomo
• 2011年7月12日 15:28

Hi Tomo,

You wouldn't have to get up one hour earlier than usual - this is a common misunderstanding. There would be just one night when the clocks changed where you would lose one hour of sleep. Of course, you would get an extra hour of sleep on the night the clocks went back again. It's difficult to explain if you have not experienced it, but "summer nights" where it is light until 9 or 10 p.m. are wonderful. People would go out more, and they would spend more money, so it would be good for businesses.

•  David
• 2011年7月12日 16:46

Hi David and everyone,

How was your weekend everyone?
The rainy season abruptly finished.
News papers announced that it’s done 15 days earlier than usual.
I dislike summer ‘cause I tend to loss my appetite, but I can say that I like summer because laundries are easy to dry.

By the way here are my answers.

1) Do you know why Japan has not introduced daylight saving time?
I have ever heard that Japan had this system at post World War 2.. (Animal Farm told us in detail,thanks :)) But quit soon.
Anyway, I　found a lot of objection not to introduced it.
For example:
*Land of Japan stretches long from North to South. There is a time lag sunrise between N and S. Therefore it is hard to set clocks altogether. Animal Farm also pointed out an example of case of Hokkaido.
*Sunset in European countries come to late. But in Japan, doesn’t. Just one hour forward set our clocks make no differences than now.
*Russia used to do “daylight savings”, but stopped. One of reason is, increasing suicide rate for mental illness　after the system. In Japan nowadays, media and government announced that suicide rate keeps 30,000 people or more every year. This rate apparently pointed out potential millions of mental pacients.
*Working over time won’t extinct based on Japanese work environment( big companies could be improve. But most of the companies scales small could not be) .
2) Would you be in favour of having daylight saving time in Japan? If not, why not?
I would answer this, it is valuable to try daylight savings.
I don’t think it works soon as for electricity savings, making out pastime hours (say, if it starts, my husband and his colleges must go for drink more! His office has quite a lot of chances to drink)
However,above all, Japan has tendency “not-to-try".
Try first, if it does’t work, so quit.
Considering too much doesn’t bear any good things I think.

Hi Chiki,
This is my first message to you,
Belated Happy Birthday :)

•  noriko
• 2011年7月12日 22:30

Hi David and everyone,

Yes, we talked about daylight saving time before. But it's a timely topic because some companies already started having DST or some companies are thinking about starting it after Tepco's incident.
There are pros and cons about it but we should at least try and see what would it be.

(1)As Animal Farm said, Japan once introduced DST after WW2, but it didn't go well during those days. The situation is differnt now, so it might go well this time.
(2) I'm in favor of having DST. We can enjoy extra evening time doing anything: have more leisure time and people might spend some money and that would boost our economy.
There are opposing opinions of people might work overtime. But nowadays lots of companies tend to reduce working hour.

I thoght and am still confusing that I have to wake up earier if we introduced DST like Tomo said. It sure is difficult to understand something if we have never experienced it.

Hi Tomo,

>I wish I could go back to my youth!
So do I !
Having sisters is good. You hang out together even after you grew up. I have a brother but we've never hang out alone together. Sisters could be like friends?

Catch you later! Fumie

•  Fumie
• 2011年7月13日 07:05

Hi Fumie,

Basically, it works like this. Imagine that tonight is the night the clocks go forward. If you go to bed at midnight, you will change the time on your clocks so that it is actually 1 a.m. If you usually get up at 7, that means you will only get 6 hours of sleep tonight instead of 7, so you lose one hour. From tomorrow, however, you will just adjust your life to the new time. You will go to bed when the clock says 12, and then get up when the clock says 7, so you will get your full 7 hours of sleep again.

In the autumn, when it is time to put the clocks back, you will go to bed at 12, but turn your clock back to 11. If you get up at 7 as usual the next day, you will have 8 hours of sleep that night.

Hi Noriko,

"Land of Japan stretches long from North to South. There is a time lag sunrise between N and S. Therefore it is hard to set clocks altogether."

The same is true of Britain, but DST works fine there.

"Sunset in European countries come to late. But in Japan, doesn’t. Just one hour forward set our clocks make no differences than now."

The sun sets at about 7 or 7.30 in Japan in the summer. That would change to 8 or 8.30, so you would get an extra hour of daylight.

•  David
• 2011年7月13日 07:49

Hi David and everyone,

I tried to post a comment last night but I failed so I will try tonight again.

Have a nice day and see you later;)
amo

•  amo
• 2011年7月13日 08:19

Hi David,

Thank you so much for detailed explanation.
I understand that we don't lose any sleeping hour：
Although we lose 1 hour of sleeping time on the night the clocks go forward but we get back that 1 hour on the night to put the clocks back.
But I still think that we have to wake up earier than real time if we had DST.
Let me get clear this.
夜の１２時に寝て、朝の７時に起きる場合、
サマータイムで時計の針を１時間早めたら、その時計の針が７時になったら起きるということなので、実際の時間は６時だから、やはりいつも（いつも７時に起きるとして）より１時間早起きすることになるのかなぁと思うのですが。（日本語で書いていても混乱してきました）
サマータイム導入の日に６時間睡眠になってしまった、１時間分を、秋に元に戻す日に８時間睡眠となるので損はしないというポイントはよくわかりました。
I'm so sorry. I'm not clever enough to understand this.
Anyway, I'm for having DST because I'm an early bird.

Fumie

•  Fumie
• 2011年7月13日 10:57

Hi David,
Thanks for your explanation. Now I understand how the system works, but I'm still not sure if "summer nights" are good for me or not. I think having an extra hour of daylight would be wonderful for people who can have a lot of leisure time in the evening, but as you know, I'm a homemaker, so I would be cooking dinner, doing the dishes, or taking care of my children. Summer time would affect my life on weekends, but I don't think it would make a big difference on weekdays. Daylight saving time might be nice, but fireworks, night view, and the lights of festivals wouldn't be beautiful if it wasn't dark. In summer, there are also a lot of things you can enjoy in the dark.

Hi Fumie,
Yes, sisters can be friends. Actually, my second elder sister is my closest friend. We talk with each other when we have problems. I know all of her old boyfriends(笑).

See you,

Tomo

PS Animal Farm, I didn't know that Japan has tried DST before. Thanks for sharing!

•  Tomo
• 2011年7月13日 12:53

Hi David and everyone,

Yes, we discussed this topic as Fumie said.
I knew about this system several years ago when I was watching a news show” Anderson Cooper 360” aired in the U.S.
An anchor, Anderson explained the viewers about DST and also told that the schedule of the programs start one hour earlier.
Actually, I experienced this when I visited England in Oct. and Nov. several years ago.
Before going there, I knew you need to put your clock back on Nov.1, but I totally forgot about it.
On that morning, I went downstairs to the hotel's dining room for breakfast, but there was no one there,even a staff!
Just after that, I realized it was Nov.1! Isn't it confusing to put the clock forward or back?
I'm wondering if there isn't any problem about it for people having this system.

Anyway, here are my answers to the question:

1) Do you know why Japan has not introduced daylight saving time?

Yes, I know.

2) Would you be in favour of having daylight saving time in Japan? If not, why not?

I'm in favor of having daylight saving time in Japan.
I don't think adopting this system works to be eco-friendly, but it sounds to be productive starting a day early in the morning.
Actually, I'm a morning person :)

Bye for now,

PS.Animal Farm,hope you'll have a relaxing time with watching movies.

Anne

•  Anne
• 2011年7月13日 12:57

Hi Fumie

I understand what you mean.
おそらく、サマータイムを経験されたデビッドさんと、
（まだ経験されてない）フミエさんのサマータイムへの捉え方が異なってると思いました(おそらくですけど...)。

フミエさんがおっしゃる、「いつも7時に起きている」んだけど、サマータイムで時計が１時間が進んだ場合「7時は実際の6時」なんだから、6時に起きてるという事になる、って事ですよね？それは次の日であっても、サマータイムが終わるまで、7時に起きた場合は、本当は6時。

そこで、デビッドさんの "You wouldn't have to get up one hour earlier than usual"　の言葉は、お互いの「サマータイム」への捉え方が異なってると思うのです。

私が思いますに、アメリカ（少なくとも私のまわり）では実際、サマータイムで1時間進んだ場合、「1時間早く起きる」という概念ではなく、時計が夏時計になったけど、体が慣れるので「1時間早く起きる」という感覚ではありません。よって、「1時間早く起きる」という概念はないのです。

おそらくデビットさんや、私のまわりのアメリカ人は "you will just adjust your life to the new time. "という概念なのです。

実際、アメリカ人に聞いてみたのですが、「1時間早く起きるって事よね？」って何度確認しても、「理屈ではわかるけど、なんで1時間早く起きることになるの？」って言われまして。
「1時間早く起きると思うのはサマーになる前の時計のまま計算してるからであって、体は慣れるので1時間早く起きる事にはならないよ！サマーで1時間進んでも、寝る時間も同じであれば、いつもと同じ時間分の睡眠もとれるし」って言われちゃいました。

もちろん、フミエさんがおっしゃりたいポイントは分かります。体が慣れるのは分かっているけれど、「ソノ」ポイントを確認されたかったんですよね？

もし、違ってたら本当にすみませぬ。
Animal Farm

P.S 英語でトライしようとしましたけど、コンガラガってきましたので、日本語で失礼します。

•  Animal Farm
• 2011年7月13日 13:19

Hi Fumie,
フミエさん、すみません、もう１個だけ。
私め、ペンシルベニアに住んでるんですが、この間のロッキー山脈に行った時、最初の3日日ほど「ペンシルベニア」と「コロラド」の時間差で辛かったのです。

コロラドとペンシルベニアの時間差は2時間あるのですが。

つまり、コロラドで午前7時に起きた場合、私の体はまだコロラドタイムに慣れてませんので、体の中では、午前5時に起きてる事になるのです。寝る時間は同じだったので＾＾；

最初はしんどかったのですが、だんだん慣れてきて、午前5時起き感覚はなくなりました〜。

Hi Tomo and Anne,
Thanks for your message! See you soon : )

•  Animal Farm
• 2011年7月13日 13:34

Hi David,

Thanks for your quick feedback for me.
I'm happy to hear that :)

"Land of Japan stretches long from North to South. There is a time lag sunrise between N and S. Therefore it is hard to set clocks altogether."

>The same is true of Britain, but DST works fine there.

Yes,I think it's same between two countries.
But,how about clocks for working enviorment?
As you know,there are varied of companies and factories throughout Japan.
One company starts to run early in the morning till evening.
One runs from daytime till midnight.
One runs for 24hours 365 days.
They have their own clocks for their time tables.
On the other hand,in Britain,they close companies or factories by midnight,don't they?
If not, they have a day-off on Sunday at least,don't they?
(if I'm wrong,forgive me please :))
I don't think 2 countries are the same for taking in the new system.

"Sunset in European countries come to late. But in Japan, doesn’t. Just one hour forward set our clocks make no differences than now."

>The sun sets at about 7 or 7.30 in Japan in the summer. That would change to 8 or 8.30, so you would get an extra hour of daylight.

Yes, we could have extra hour of daylight.
However,just an hour could be made just a moving time or preparing time for your joy.
If daylight hours are longer(like Britain, France ...etc) we could be fun.

I still think its a good idea for take a system.
Getting to work early is quite eco-friendly I think(Tomo reminded me this word.Thanks Tomo :))
I wonder if its starts as an experiment to see if it works or not.

By the way,I experienced summer time and after summer time in New Zealand.
Unluckily,I wasn't there at the time to set my clock forward,but set mine behind.
I enjoyed different culture those days.
Besides,I too enjoyed to find unadjusted clock at the summer time ended.

Hi Tomo,

I couldn't think of "joy in the dark hours".
Yes,we have great fire works and so on( Nagaoka-shi where I live shows overwhelming and beautiful fire works every summer.)
Japanese one suits for darker night.

noriko

•  noriko
• 2011年7月13日 15:07

Hi David,

Long time no see!

2) Would you be in favour of having daylight saving time in Japan? If not, why not?

Nope.

Researchers say that most people are not getting enough sleep, feel tired, and some people even get depressed caused by the clocks moving forward an hour to daylight saving time. Actually, a friend of mime in the UK used to say, "The change to BST has had its usual effect on me and I feel tired and depressed."

Ash

•  匿名
• 2011年7月13日 17:49

Hi Animal Farm,

Sorry for my late reply: thank you for dropping by my website with your hubby and giving me such encouragement.
I'd appreciate it if both of you come and stay here when you come back to Japan,
By the way, I started following you on Twitter where you write in English, Korean and Japanese.
That's excellent, I can't follow Korean though. Besides, I didn't know you wanted to be a nurse.
I bet you will become an interesting international nurse for patients in the world.

Hi Noriko,

Sorry for my late reply to your questions. I was very happy to receive the questions from you.
Also, your warm words made me jump. Here are my answers.

> Did you draw by yourself or order to someone?

No, one of my friend's son is between jobs right now, so his mother who is my friend asked me
if I might want to make him try his first job as a web designer.
I replied at once, "Yes, definitely." because I'd been always wanting my own website.

> Have all furnitures and goods are selected by yourselves?

Yes, I did. Glad you liked them.

> Have you inspired to hospitality when you lived in Singapore?

To be honest, I've never thought about that, but it sure was. Facing various nationalities and
languages must have inspired me. Thanks Noriko for reminding me of that.

•  tsuneko
• 2011年7月13日 18:03

Hi David and everyone,

I had lots and lots of fun in Nagoya over the weekend. It was much hotter than I expected it would be. I thought I would not give in to the summer heat, but actually, I did. I felt like I sweat as much in three days as that I would do in whole summer.

Getting back to the topic, here are my answers to David's questions.

1) I remember that Japan tried summer time once after the world war II but I didn't know the reason why they stopped soon, so the reasons Animal Farm introduced were very interesting to me. They seem all reasonable and sounded like Japanese(お腹が空いていて寝られないとか、明るい内は働かなくてはとか …).

2) Yes, I've been favour of having summer time in Japan as well, which is now. I strongly ageed with Noriko's opinion as below.

> However, above all, Japan has tendency “not-to-try". Try first, if it does't work, so quit.
Considering too much doesn't bear any good things I think.

I really want to try summer time in Japan, although I'm a night owl. いいえ、夜型だからこそ(I can't say this in English, so, let me know if you know that), because I'm a night person, I'd like to get up an hour earlier automatically.

Hi Ash,

Nice to see you again.^^

•  tsuneko
• 2011年7月13日 18:43

Hi David and everyone,

As for the topic, we discussed it before and maybe I mentioned that they tried the system in Sapporo area and some other places in Hokkiado before.
It worked all right and 70% people who tried it were positive about introducing daylight saving time. If you are interested in that, please have a look at the website below.

http://www.sapporo-cci.or.jp/summer/pdf/summer-houkoku-2004-2006.pdf

Anyway, let me answer your questions;

1)Do you know why Japan has not introduced daylight saving time?

I’m not sure, but maybe because it isn’t light until 9 or 10 p.m. like in the UK;-)

2) Would you be in favour of having daylight saving time in Japan? If not, why not?

I’m also in favour of having daylight saving time in Japan. As you said, we have more leisure time, even if only for one hour.

Bye for now,

Maki

•  Maki
• 2011年7月13日 21:44

Hi Maki,
I'm glad to see your comment here again^^)

•  Anne
• 2011年7月13日 22:53

Hi Maki,

Good to hear from you again. I remember you talked about the summer time tried once in Hokkaido before, which was not the war time but quite recently. Do you remember when we discussed the topic? I tried to find it out but couldn't find. If you remember that, let me know.

•  tsuneko
• 2011年7月13日 23:16

Hi Noriko,
Thanks for your message, but I think the person who reminded you of the expression "eco-friendly" is Anne;-)

Hi Ash and Maki,
It's great to hear from you:)

By the way, have we talked about daylight saving time before? I can't remember when we did. It seems like I'm starting to lose my memory...

I'm going to bed now.
Good night,

Tomo

•  Tomo
• 2011年7月13日 23:53

I live in a DST zone and really enjoy the time change in the summer (except the one day when you sleep an hour less.)

•  HGH
• 2011年7月14日 03:18

Hi Tsuneko,
Thanks for your affectionate message and the follow! Yes, I realized it and I also followed you :)

I moved to Japan with my family when I was a ten-year-old girl. It was very interesting for me to study history from both sides (Japan and Korea).
Now, studying nursing in English is a long way for me but I want to become a nurse : )
いつか "Minasan! Guesthouse"と ご縁がある時は宜しくお願いします！

Hi Ash,
Nice to meet you!

Hi Maki,
Nice to meet you!
Thank you so much for sharing with us the "2004～2006 北海道サマータイム月間・報告書"
I didn't know that Hokkaido tried having the DST.
It seems that they tried having the system without moving the clock!
That's why people think, "I have to wake up one hour earlier than usual."

Anyway, most people cooperate with each other, It did go well and 70% people have positive opinions about it.
I think it's great!

Hi everyone,
Please have a lovely day!

Animal Farm

P.S. I am also wondering how do people say in English "いいえ、夜型だからこそ" as Tsuneko said....

•  Animal Farm
• 2011年7月14日 05:20

Hi Animal Farm,

>サマータイムの捉え方が実際にサマータイムを経験したDavidと、まだ経験していない私で異なっている。
I think that's the point. Your American friends said the similar things.
So technically, I think my understanding is right: if we set clocks 1 hour earier, we have to get up 1 hour earier than actual time. But people who have experienced DST don't have such concept of getting up earier. It's just the difference of the way of thinking between people who have experienced it and people who have never experienced it.
David, I'm sorry if what I wrote above is wrong.
Thank you SO MUCH! You even asked your American friends. What a kind person you are!
I'm sure you will be a warm, wonderful nurse!

Hi Maki,

I'm glad to see your comments again. ^^
When was that we talked about DST? I checked previous blog but I couldn't find it. I think David talked about it not as the week's topic but he asked us why Japan did not introduce DST and anyone does know the reason? I've been joining this blog from last June so the topic was within last 1year.

I'm off to work.
Fumie

•  Fumie
• 2011年7月14日 05:48

I just found out the past entries as below where we discussed summer saving time. Thanks to Fumie's tip and also my guess of that David must have talked about it during summer, it was easy to find it out. It turned out that we didn't discuss much as this time, but it was fun rereading them with nice pictures of UK taken by David.

Scotland Trip (2010/08/16)
Back from London (08/21)
Coming back to Japan (08/30)

I saw lots of names of old regulars, like Nao, Green, Carrie, Sam, Chiyo, there.

Hi, all the absentees, how have you been? Hope you are all fine in this summer's heat and come back here again.^^

•  tsuneko
• 2011年7月14日 14:37

Hi David and everyone,

This is my first time comment, I hope I can communicate with the people here.

1) Do you know why Japan has not introduced daylight saving time?

I've ever heard Japan tried to introduce DST before but it's not so welcomed by the people in Japan because it's not match with their lifestyle and way of thinking.

2) Would you be in favour of having daylight saving time in Japan? If not, why not?

Personally, I'm not in favor of having DST in Japan because we've already been accustom to the current way.
If we introduce DST, we have to change all the electric system to adjust the time so, it's too much of a bother and there's a possibility of system error.
In accordance with this, I think we need huge cost to change the system.

(However, I envy the people who can enjoy DST. I know we need the spare time to enjoy.)

•  ikurin
• 2011年7月14日 15:13

Hi tsuneko,

Thank you for your reply :)

I see. Your friend's son who made your website was gifted :) I like these pattern.

>Facing various nationalities and
languages must have inspired me.

You met a lot of attractive people in Singapore,didn't you? I want to visit Singapore someday too.

Hi Tomo,

Yes,I confused each comments,yours and Anne's.
I had strong impression both from fire works that you mentioned and the word "eco-friendly" that Anne wrote.
Sorry about that ;d

Hi Anne,

As I wrote above,I didn't make sure enough before I posted.
When I mentioned "eco~" on my comment, I didn't come up with a suitable phrase,then I remembered someone used "eco-friendly".
It was yours. Sorry Anne ;d

Hi Maki,

I read the report about the daylight savings in Hokkaido case.
It was interesting.

noriko

•  noriko
• 2011年7月14日 15:32

Hi David and eveyone,

I wrote this comment last night but I couldn't access to the net, and it happens a lot these days.
Anyway here is my comment.

About the topic, yes, you mentioned it while you were in UK last summer and Maki told us that Hokkaido tried it once. I have experienced it when I went to other countries in summertime, and I liked it very much. As David said, you can enjoy extra daylight hours. Having said that, I am not sure if it’s a good idea to have it in Japan or not.

Anyway, here are my answers you question.

1) No, but I assume that Japan had it after WW2 and it didn’t work at all,
so some people believe it’s not fit in Japan.

2) No, I can’t find any good reason to have it in Japan . If daylight hours were long enough like UK , we would have the benefit of it in Japan . Besides, most of all Asian countries don't have it. It might be fit in Hokkaido because it’s not that hot in summer there, so people could enjoy the daylight hours. But I don't think that it's fit in my hometown, Okinawa. I would rather suggest that the opposite system in Okinawa because everybody want to avoid too much sun during summer. If Okinawan summer time was JST + 1 hour, we could get extra night hour. So Okinawan people could have fun at nighttime hours. When I go back there I usually meet up with my friend after sunsets. If we had that system, I would enjoyed the nighttime more with my friends;)
Hope you understand what I was trying to say...

amo

Hi Ash and Maki,

welcome back;)

•  amo
• 2011年7月14日 18:43

Correction

JST + 1 > JST - 1

I made a huge mistake, if it's "+," nothing different from DST!!

amo

•  amo
• 2011年7月14日 19:06

Hi ikurin,

Nice to have you with us;)
Look forward to your next comment.

amo

•  amo
• 2011年7月14日 20:33

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your messages;-)

Hi Animal Farm,

Nice to meet you, too:)

Maki

•  Maki
• 2011年7月14日 21:42

Hi David, Animal Farm and everyone,

> I really want to try summer time in Japan, although I'm a night owl. いいえ、夜型だからこそ(I can't say this in English, so, let me know if you know that), because I'm a night person, I'd like to get up an hour earlier automatically.

Let me try to rewrite the above sentences of mine as below.

"I really want to try summer time in Japan, although I'm a night owl. Or rather, precisely because I'm a night person, I hope I can get up an hour earlier automatically in summer time."

I wonder if it makes sense. I'd appreciate if you would correct that.

•  tsuneko
• 2011年7月15日 00:02

Hi Fumie,
You are fa~~~bulosu ♪♪
Thank you so much for your warm message and explanation about it in English! I am not sure whether it's correct or not along with David's interpretation.
I understand people who haven't experienced DST think, "I have to wake up one hour earlier."
However, I never really thought about it.
I think I adjusted to the time change naturally.
Please have a great time at your work!

Hi Tsuneko,
Thanks for founding out about the past entries!
I enjoyed the members' comments and the photo of the Lake District!
By the way, I am not sure, but it seems it makes sense your sentences.

Hi Ikurin,
Nice to meet you!
Looking forward reading your comment again!

Animal Farm

•  Animal Farm
• 2011年7月15日 03:26

Hi David and everyone,

Did you have a good sleep last night?
It was not so hot last night compared with these last couple of days, but it is supposed to be scorching hot again.

>Noriko,
You don't need to say sorry at all!
By the way, I liked the idea "Try first, if it does’t work, so quit."!

>Ash,
Glad to hear from you again.
It differs how you feel about this system depending on each person,maybe...

>tsuneko,
Thanks for letting us know when we talked about this topic. I couldn't find it! I also miss old regulars^^)
By the way, yes,　indeed. It was very hot last weekend. Since you and Maki experienced this summer's heat in Nagoya, you'll know how hot it is when I complain about the weather!
>"I really want to try summer time in Japan, although I'm a night owl---I liked this expression、
I'm also wondering how you can explain"...だからこそ” and if you don't need to think about this point too much or not.

>Maki,
Thanks for sharing the information. I remember you explained Hokkaido's experiment.

>ikurin and HGH,

Nice to have you here! Looking forward to your next comment.

I'm hearing the buzz of cicadas outdoors. It's the start of the another sultry day.

See you soon,

Anne

•  Anne
• 2011年7月15日 06:41

Hi HGH & ikurin,
Welcome to the blog! Hope to see more comments from you:)

Hi Tsuneko,
Thanks for checking old entries. I had completely forgotten about that!

Have a nice day, everyone♪

Tomo

•  Tomo
• 2011年7月15日 08:18

Hi everyone,

I read one bank mayor's opinion about DST on the internet. He is concerned that "banks have so many systems in Japan and they can't change the systems easily."
But other countries which have DST seem to have had no problems with it.

I am thinking that few member's comments about
mental sickness with DST.

Clocks are arbitrary.
In societies, using clocks is very useful for everything to have the same schedule. Then people made clocks.

Many many years ago, people didn't have clocks.
They woke up with the sunrise, and went to sleep with the sunset.
So I think the human bodies able to adjust to many different situations.
For example, people who live in Alaska with most of the day being dark in winter and some of the year it is light most of the day.
But people are able to live there.

Why do human beings have to worry about such simple things? I think we have to let the worries go, and learn to adjust and adapt.

I understand that some people are happy DST and others are concerned.
There are many issues involved with both sides.

Anyway, I am glad to have had an opportunity to read many people's comments about DST.

Please enjoy your weekend!

Animal Farm

•  Animal Farm
• 2011年7月15日 08:19

Hi tsuneko,
I'm so glad you remember my name.
I haven't seen this blog for a long time, but today I
visit this sight after a long absence.
To tell the truth, I lost interest studying English, but these days little by little I've been trying to read
English. Someday I'll wirte my opinion on this blog.
Thank you again remembering my name.

•  Carrie
• 2011年7月15日 11:21