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Daylight Saving This Weekend
Government's reintroduction of daylight saving will see Fiji clocks advanced one hour at 2am this coming Sunday morning, 29th November, and put back one hour at 3am Sunday 25th April next year.
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According to a report in The Fiji Times Thursday June 2 1966 a daylight saving plan was withdrawn by Ratu Edward Cakobau (Council of Chiefs). “Ratu Edward traced the history of attempts to introduce daylight saving in Fiji, in 1921, 1929, 1938 and in 1942 as a war measure. On every occasion it had been abandoned. He said that daylight saving would not affect to any degree two-thirds of the population which lived either in rural inland, coastal country and island areas. These people, farmers and fishermen, he said, geared their ways of life to tides, winds current day breaks, not strictly to the clock. That left two thirds of the people.”
In 2009 with the population now concentrated in the urban areas it could work.
But it really is not a new concept to Fiji.
This is just a waste of time. What difference will it actually make? I am sure this govt has other important things to address than tampering with the 24 hrs bestowed upon us by the Almighty. The Church services will start an hour earlier, will it? Grog session an hour earlier? What about work next morning? An hour earlier? Where is the friggin difference? Is it just because Oz and NZ do it?(monkey see, monkey do???) Well, if that is the case, I have a suggestion for you.ie, change the electoral clauses of the 1997 constitution and go to polls. How hard is that to do, now that you have total control on the country? 2014 seems to be buying time for personal gains now. It will only take ONE decree to eliminate racial aspects. What the "F" is going on? Change the names of schools, call everybody "Fijian" and go to elections now under a new constitution. I cant see anything wrong with the 1997 constitution except the electoral provision and powers of the president. I hear that our president wants to unite the chiefs. Ha ha ha. Laughable. how about uniting the people of Fiji? Having dickheads like him as president is a disaster in itself. Having said that, I do support this govt, but they seem to have lost it for some reason.
Joe,
You're too hard on Allen. Read his weekly column. It's about life going on, not politics.
And please be kinder in your tone and language. We all want a happier, fairer Fiji.
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