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His Excellency the Governor has suggested that the clock should be advanced half-an-hour in Hongkong, as a "daylight saving measure. A contributor presents, in this article, some of the difficulties which would be encountered.
"TIME" is the "measurable aspect of duration" and to primitive peoples was most effectively demonstrat- ed by the rising and setting of the sun, and the phases of the moon; to this day Calendars on the basis of the lunar month are in use among the nations of the world.
The day is, however, the fundamental unit in all systems of timekeeping and is the period during which the earth rotates once upon its axis. The "Julian" date, which is used in some astronomical calculations is expressed in this unit exclusively and is the number of days from 4713 B.C., January 1st. HAVING postulated the im-
portance of the day as the unit of time-keeping, considera- tion must be given to the manner in which it is employed throughout the world. A revolu- tion of the earth upon its axis is marked by successive periods of light and darkness in any particular place, and if the sur- Stubbs Road face of the canth as a whole is considered, it follows that simultaneously one half is in darkness and the other is illuminated.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMOEN 10, 1936
COLONY'S POVERTY
PROBLEM
The majority of mankind toils during the bright hours and sleeps during the hours of dark- ness, and in consequence it has
will pass the Monument at 5.15become customary to regulate waking actions by the sun or in what is known as local time.
Although local time neces sarily varies to the extent of 24 hours in a journey round the world, no exception can be taken to its use by an isolated com- munity, but with the establish ment of communications over large distances, by ships, rail- way trains und aircraft, uni- formity of time over consider The magnitude of the task able areas is essential to smooth confronting charitable organisa-working of transport and the
facilitation of commerce. tions in helping to relieve the In the various almanacs will lot of the poor and needy is be found the means by which strikingly illustrated in
the this has been accomplished, Le., annual report of the Society for by dividing the circumference the Protection of Children, the of the earth into 24 equal parts main features of which we pub and employing the same time lished yesterday. The record throughout the zone thus de- marcated. Each zone is a de for the past year shows that the finite number
of hours in Society dealt with far more advance of, or behind Greenwich cases than ever before in its his- time. tory.
Indicative of the value The extent of a zone is such
This Mean Time Clock at the Royal Observatory keeps correct time for the Colony of Hongkong.
Are we
too
for
primitive daylight saving?
If every avail- nble field and tennis court is fully occupied with players for a sufficient time cach evening, what proportion of the popula- tion would be thus represent- ed? Would it be as large as that which would be com- pelled to arise in the darkness of the now early morning to ad- minister to the
whole population?
be more extensively utilised, but varying with a number of eir comfort and well being of the there is only one way to ne cumstances. complish it and that is by com- The majority of strenuous mencing work or play earlier.
games are played between Octa-
proposal has been To return to the case of the ber 1 and March 31. during THE
analysed in as general terms isolated community: there is no which period the time of sunset reason why such a community varies from 5.38 p.m. to 6.17 as possible, and the suggestions. should not be a law unto itself p.m.
which
in inevitable. The
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that during the year there were over 30,000 calls made at the and gain half an hour in the Society's branches, whilst more morning. At the western ex- than 3,000 visits to the homes tremity the opposite conditions of the poor were made by in-prevail, and only in the centre of the zone does standard time spectors. It is impossible, by mere figures, to give any real correspond with the local mean
time. impression of the deadweight of poverty which the Society's workers encounter, but some
arc emerge
that an
com-
in matters of time-keeping, but This gives the conscientious alteration of clocks or oflice a community having commercial relations with its neighbours worker an average of 58 minutes hours would not conduce to the would be wise to synchronise during the winter and an addi- better conduct of business and be inadequate when the time its working hours with them. tion of 30 minutes would still that the comfort of the many If it does not, either by means taken up in travel from office to might be a secondary considera- of altering the clock face or by playing field and the usual tion to the recreation of the utilising different working
commercial dis changing of attire is taken into few. Primitive man instinctive- hours, some
consideration. It would there ly works by the sun, and it is location, Colony is struggling to emerge fore appear that half an hour incontestable that a large num- is insufficient for the purpose ber of this Colony's inhabitants from a depression, and those and the discussion of any period remain primitive in essentials.
Leaving all auch considera- whom the struggle is of greatest moment will probably be loth to less than one hour is rather
tions aside, everyone would wel- see the community placed at the trifling with the question.
Before leaving the subject of come more daylight in winter smallest disadvantage with its neighbours.
sport, special reference must be evenings. It is for the made to the playing of golf at munity to decide to what extent Fanling. It is quite impossible the consequent disadvantages week-days are to be tolerated. It is not jected change is sport-a without encroaching upon work- proposed to discuss those dis- term which comprises amuse- ing hours, while upon Sunday, advanages. in detail; they are ment, pastimes, games, etc., but the time available for play rests many, but are not all of general in the consideration of this upon the player himself. The application. It may, however, taken to first train leaves Kowloon before be advisable to consider--an question, it may be denote those games necessitat 7 am. and there is nothing to extremely unlikely possibility ardent players ing daylight for their successful doter
from and compare it with the pro- prosecution, examples of which utilising it; in fact older mem-posal now before the public. are bowls, cricket, football, golf, bers of the Golf Club must have Suppose London decided to use idea of how the poor subsist can HONGKONG is situated near hockey and lawn tennis. Bowls pleasant recollections of days a time different from the rest
the weastern extremity of is usually indulged in during spent at Fanling in congenial of the United Kingdom.
The aspirations of the Colony. be gathered from the fact that the zone in which the time of the summer months when more company under these conditions.
an airport the average income per head per the 120th meridian is adopted, time is available. It is im- Week-end golf at Fanling de- to importance as month of cases dealt with last and in consequence has per- possible to play a cricket match pends upon transport, and no should promote many "second before Hongkong year was $1.73. This figure, manently advanced the clock by after 5 p.m., hockey and foot amount of meddling with clocks thoughts" would be even more startling approximately 23 minutes.
ball matches require an hour will alter the fact that the plunges into a parallel experi- still if the record were confined The time used is actually 8 and ten minutes to an hour and courses are available between ment. Surely "daylight saving" to those actually assisted, as hours in advance of Greenwich a half and nine holes of golf dawn and dusk to any who should be reserved for countries there are numbers of cases in Mean Time and it must here be need one hour at least. A set of have which relatively well-to-do noted that Greenwich Mean lawn tennis will occupy a period utilising them. mothers call at the branches for Time is standard time of refer- advice. Actually, there were over 300 cases in which the ence for the world, is extensive- ly quoted in a multitude of families had no income at all.official notices, and is so much It is impossible within the con-in evidence nowadays that it is fines of a brief article to touch a great convenience to remem- on many aspects of the Society's ber that the time in a district work, which have a counterpart differs from Greenwich Mean in that of other similar bodies. Time by, a definite number of But there are two facts which deserve emphasis. The first is
The proposal now before the that there is no home for crip- Hongkong community is that pled children in Hongkong, and the clock should be permanently none for blind boys. Even for advanced half an hour in order the treatment of children's com- that additional daylight should plaints generally, the normal be available for sport. hospital accommodation in the
The term "daylight saving" Colony is totally inadequate, is a misonmer, as any system In such circumstances, there is of time-keeping, which gives To resisting the conclusion
extra in the evening curtails drawn that many children are the daylight of the morning. compelled to place their only It is impossible to "save" hope of survival in begging, daylight. It is true that it can elther independently or for those who exploit them. The situa tion is one which cannot viewed with complacency.
be
hours.
"THERE
THERE isn't time for it in theed
convenient meana
ISN'T
of (even small ones) and not in- dulged in by solitary towns.
TIME..!"
days." Have you ever realised The Price We
the absurdity of those oft-repeated words? I did not realise it usin travelling at 200 miles an hour. heard
them spotten in an aeroplane
The speaker on that occasion was business man who makes great use
Pay For Speed
of aeroplanes. He had been telling to save time we have all forgotten me exactly how many hours week how to spend it.
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The Victorian drawingroom plunist may have played badly on occas- Jons, but she at least knew what she. was playing. The modern possessor of a radiogram, hearing the pick of the world's music every day of his. life, has "no time" to study it or try have "no time to study any- We get 'our
to
have
'no time
to read a long
sentences
memorise
new, difficulty is now being en-system, with a panel of repring that he was saving three hours we save the less time we have in out giving us any compensating benc
understand It. We he saved through travelling by air. We ly, we drive fast cars, and from that he went on to discuss telephone and cable, we broadcast. thing for ourselves. the progress made in methods of we have newspapers printed in such opinions from the leading article travel during the last hundred years, a way that the news can be gleaned in our daily paper, and since we When he said something about the from the headlines in a few moment reasoned article, this leader gene
I old stuge-coaches happened
to we have quick-lunch counters, we mention Charles Dickens.
listen-in to operas, and plays and consists of a few dogmatic generally "Dickens," and my time-saving sporting events instead of going to which we can read quickly, memor companion, "I haven't read any of see them, we read "Outlines" which easily, and repeat
We have to do everything in a his stuff since I left school. It's too condense the knowledge of the ages hurry. We eat in a hurry, travel in long-winded; there isn't time for it into a few chapters, we
have 4 consider the possibility of in- in these days."
hundred thousand devices all un-n hurry, werk in a hurry, and amuse
And the hur Astituting a modified form of that He did not notice that he was known a century ago and all devoted ourselves in a hurry.
destroys our digestions, uttering an absurdily. After boast to the same purpose-the
purpose rled eating
the hurried work wears us out with- of saving time. And the more time countered by the decision to sentatives of charitable bodies
on a two-hundred mile Journey he restrict hawkers' licences, hith-assisting in an advisory capa had confessed that he had no time which to do anything worth while.ments bore us so much that we are the hurriedly taken amuse- Ats, and Few of us have
read any- erto a medium through which city, something along the lines to read books for which his grande thing but the lightest and shortest always rushing on to others: even charitable bodies could find work of the duties formerly dis- fathers had plenty of time. He
more hurried and more boring still. of novels; anything else is, as my for the deserving. The inevit- charged by Boards of Guardians saw not strange in the fact that time-saving friend said of Dickens, the idea of Speed that we spend all In short, we are so obsessed with with every modern means of travel ablo result is to increase the at Home, The Government has at his disport; he still had less too long-winded. We have no me calla on these organisations, It its responsibilities in this mat leisure than the slow-moving Victo read the newspapers; we just skimme rushing about without is to be admitted that the estab-ter of social service, and these forlans.
through the headlines and the one knowing in the least where we are
rushing.t
E.to or why wo are rushing to or two columnis that attract our']) lishment of a system of poor are not fully discharged by the Saved Then Wasted
Hit Ka attention.
I once heard law relief would be a tremend method of making grants to 80-
of two Americans We have no time to master the
who were "aceing Britain,” (Arriving ous undertaking, but, in view of cieties. The whole issue is one He was not alone, Most of us plano or the violin: we have to get at a famous old abbey, one of them the resolve to reduce hawking which deserves investigation by share his enthusiasm for modern our music ready-made from the STORE OPEN FROM 8.30 am to 6 pm. SATURDAY to 5 p.m. to the eventual point of elimina- a commission appointed for the umo-saving methods, and we like-wireless set or the gramophone. And took this watch and old to his companion, We can only spare wise share his inability to make use in this way we get so much music tion, the authorities might well purpose.
of the time saved. In learning how that we cannot understand any of it, (Continued on Page 5.)
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