Goodbye Daylight Saving (DLS), How I hate you

Goodbye Daylight Saving (DLS), How I hate you

The Owl Statue on Sunday morning Prisma

Goodbye daylight saving, I really don’t like daylight saving. I’m an early morning person and I don’t care about having light at the end of the day. I don’t exercise outside after work, I don’t socialise with anyone after work, all I need is light and heat so I can cook and eat.

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Daylight saving ends in Australia and the Ikea VIKIS digital clock

Do you own an Ikea VIKIS digital clock and have no idea how to change the settings?

If you own an Ikea VIKIS digital clock and you no longer have the instruction/user manual here are the instructions.

Ikea VIKIS Digital Clock

Instructions for Ikea VIKIS digital clock

I reproduce them here for your information.

VIKIS alarm clock has date, time and alarm functions and background lighting. In addition to the alarm function you can also activate an optional function that gives a signal every hour (chime) and a snooze function that lets you wake up gradually.

FUNCTION BUTTONS

The SET and MODE buttons are used to set the various functions of the clock. Please see below for a more detailed description and illustrations.
The LIGHT button is used to switch on the background lighting.

HOW TO SET DATE AND TIME

  1. Press the SET button 4 times to display MONTH. Use the MODE button to set the correct month.
  2. Press the SET button once more to display DAY. Use the MODE button to set the correct day.
  3. Press the SET button one more time to display HOURS. Use the MODE button to set the correct hour. Note that A P or H appears to the right of the display. A = AM P = PM H = 24-hour clock. (Choose the desired format by pressing the MODE button.)
  4. Press the SET button again to display MINUTES. Use the MODE button to set the correct minute value.
  5. To save the settings you have entered. press SET and then MODE.

HOW TO VIEW CURRENT SETTINGS

Press the MODE button to see the current settings.
Press 1 time to show current alarm time.
Press 2 times to show current date.
Press 3 times to show current seconds (Press SET to zero the seconds.)
Press 4 times to return to current time.


I don’t like Daylight saving that much

I’m not a fan of daylight saving. It would be more convenient not to have it. We have this silly situation when in summer we have five time zones. If anything we should do reverse daylight saving time in the northern parts of Australia in the dry season (but that is another argument for another time).

If China can operate on one time zone why do we need five in summer and three in winter. And why is Australian Central Time offset by 30 minutes. It would be much easier if Australian Eastern Time was UTC+10, Australian Central Time was UTC+9, and Australian Western Time was UTC+8.

Acronyms for Australian time zones

One of my pet peeves is when people use the Australian acronyms for the times incorrectly.

AEST means Australian Eastern Standard Time (you can figure out C = central and W = Western)

AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time It is not AEDST nor does AEST stand for Australian Eastern Summer Time

 

Best sleep ever

Cow grazing near Lake Ginninderra Gary Lum Sleep

Last night I had the best sleep in I don’t know how many years. I slept for just about 10 hours. That is unheard of for me.

I average about 6 hours a night. Even though I go to bed at about 8.30 I’m usually not asleep until about 10 or 11 and then I wake quite a few times during the night and get out of bed at 5.

Poor sleep last week

It must have been the really interesting week I’ve had and all that goes into hosting a meeting with delegates from around the world. Sleep has not been the best quality during the week, and Friday at the hospital was also full on. I had a marvellous afternoon with some scholars who wanted to know more about what happens in a microbiology laboratory. In fact, one of them was a colleague from my main job and she’s also the person who inspired me to start my podcast, viz., Medical Fun Facts.

After such a good sleep, I sprang out of bed, did the shopping and then enjoyed a nice walk around Lake Ginninderra.

photographs of Lake Ginninderra

Daylight saving ends tonight

I just realised this is a bonus weekend too. Daylight saving ends tonight. Yipee! I’m not a fan. We should be like Queensland in Canberra and stay on Australian Eastern Standard Time.

It will be good to be back in the same time zone as my daughters. Telephone calls and text messaging will be much easier.

Sleep will be something I hope to improve upon over winter. It is so important, I wish I did it better.

How do you sleep?

Are you a good sleeper? How many hours do you sleep? Are you a morning person like me or a night owl? Feel free to leave a comment.

Have a good one.