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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1986..

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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. 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.

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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 This Mean Time Clock at the Royal Observatory keeps days from 4713 B.C., January 1st.

correct time for the Colony of Hongkong.

HAVING postulated the im- *portance of the day us 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- Tel. 27778-9 Stubbs Road face of the earth as a whole is considered, it follows that simultaneously one half is in darkness and the other is illuminated.

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Are we

we too

primitive for daylight saving?

If every avail-- able 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 new carly morning to ad- minister to the

be more extensively utilised, but varying with a number of cir- comfort and well being of the there is only one way to ac- cumstances.

whole population?

Complish it and that is by com- The majority of strenuous Hongkong Telegraph.hours in a journey round the mencing work or play earlier.

WEDNESDAY, December 16, 1930

COLONY'S - POVERTY PROBLEM

games are played between Octo-

been

To return to the case of the ber 1 and March 31, during THE proposal has isolated community; there is no which period the time of sunset analysed in as general terms 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 emerge Dre that แท

The majority of mankind, toils GARCIA-At the French Convent during the bright hours and Hospital, at 2.15 a.m. on Decem-sleeps during the hours of dark- ber 16, 1936, Consuelo.Margarida ness, and in consequence it has Gorein, aged 28 years. Funeral become customary to. regulate will pass the Monument at 3.15 waking actions by the sun or p.m. to-day

in what is known as local time.

Although local time neces- sarily varies to the extent of 24

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 in matters of time-keeping, but This gives the conscientious alteration of clocks or office way trains and aircraft, uni-. a community having commercial formity of time over consider- relations with its neighbours worker an average of 58 minutes hours would not conduce to the during the winter and an addi- better conduct of business and The magnitude of the task able areas is essential to smooth would be the to wine ronine tion of 30 minutes would still that the comfort of the many confronting charitable organisa-facilitation of commerce.

working of transport and the its working hours with them.

be inadequate when the time If it does not, either by means taken up in travel from office to might be a secondary considera. tions in helping to relieve theIn the various almanacs will of altering the clock face or by playing field and the usual tion to the recreation of the lot of the poor and needy is be found the means by which utilising different working

commercial dis changing of attire is taken into few. Primitive man instinctive. strikingly illustrated in the this has been accomplished, i.e.. hours, some

IR inevitable.

consideration. It would there- ly works by the sun, and it is The annual report of the Society for by dividing the circumference location

fore appear that half an hour incontestable that a large num- the Protection of Children, the of the earth into 24 equal parts Colony is struggling to emerge in insufficient for the purpose ber of this Colony's inhabitants

and employing the same time from a depression, and those to main features of which we pub-throughout the zone thus de- whom the struggle is of greatest and the discussion of any period remain primitive in essentials. lished yesterday. The record marcated. Each zone is a de moment will probably be loth to less than one hour is rather Leaving all such considera- for the past year shows that the finite number of hours in see the community placed at the trifling with the question. tions aside, everyone would wel- Society dealt with far more advance of, or behind Greenwich, smallest disadvantage with its

neighbours. cases than ever before in its his time.

The extent of a zone is such Lory. Indicative of the value

that places on the eastern edge lost half an afternoon daylight and gain half an hour in the

placed upon its work is the fact that during the year there were

time.

THERE

com-

ISN'T TIME .. !"

Before leaving the subject of come more daylight in winter 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 THE avowed object of the pro- to play there on week-days are to be tolerated. It is not term which comprises amuse- ing hours, while upon Sunday, advanages in detail; they are

jected change is sport without encroaching upon work- proposed to discuss those dis-, over 30,000 calls made at the Society's branches, whilst more

morning. At the western ex- than 3,000 visits to the homes tremity the opposite conditions ment, pastimes, games, etc., but the time available for play rests many, but are not all of general prevail, and only in the centre in the consideration of this upon the player himself. The application. It may, however, of the poor were made by in-of the-zone does standard time.. question, it may be taken to first train leaves Kowloon before be advisable to consider an spectors. It is impossible, by correspond with the local mean

denote those games necessitat 7 a.m. and there is nothing to extremely unlikely possibility" mere figures, to give any real

ardent ing daylight for their successful deter

players from and compare it with the pro-- impression of the deadweight of

prosecution, examples of which utilising it; in fact older mem- pasal now before the public. poverty which the Society's

are bowls, cricket, football, golf, bers of the Golf Club must have Suppose London decided to use workers encounter, but some idea of how the poor subsist on 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, be gathered from the fact that the zone in which the time of the summer months when more company under these conditions. The aspirations of the Colony 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 an airport 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 year was $1.73. This figure manently advanced the clock by after 5 p.m., hockey and foot- amount of meddling with clocks thoughts" before Hongkong 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 havo convenient- means of (oven small ones) and not in- which relatively well-to-do noted that Greenwich Mean lawn tennis will occupy a period utilising them.

dulged in by solitary towns. mothers call at the branches for Time is standard time of refer- advice. Actually, there were ence for the world, is extensive-, over 300 cases in which the 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 THERE isn't time for it in these But there are two facts which hours.

days." Have you ever realised deserve emphasis. The first is

The proposal now before the the absurdity of those oft-repeated

The Victorian drawingroom planisl that there is no home for crip Hongkong community is that words? I did not realise it until I

may have played badly on occas pled children in Hongkong, and the clock should be permanently travelling ot 200 miles an hour.

heard them spoken in an aeroplane

lons, but she at least knew what she was playing. The modern possessor none for blind boys. Even for advanced balf an hour in order

of a radiogram, hearing the plek of The speaker on that occasion was the treatment of children's com- that additional daylight should a business man who makes great use

the world's music every day of his plaints generally, the normal be available for sport.

of aeroplanes. He had been telling to save-time we have all forgotten life, has "no time" to study it or try me exactly how many hours a week hospital accommodation in the

to understand it. how to spend it. The term "daylight saving" he saved through travelling by air, We fly, we drive fast cars,, we We have "no time" to study any- Colony is totally inadequate.is a misonmer, as any system and from that he went on

We get our discuss telephone, and cable, we broadcast, thing for ourselves.

article In such circumstances, there is of time-keeping which gives the progress made in methods of we have newspapers printed in such opinions from the leading No resisting the conclusion extra in the evening curtails When he said something about the from the headlines in a few moments, reason

travel during the last hundred years, a way that the news can be gleaned in our daily paper, and aince we

"no time"

to read long drawn that many children are the daylight of the morning. old stage-couches I happened to compelled to place their only

we have quick-lunch counters, we reasoned article, this leader generally It is impossible to "save" mention Charles Dickens.

listen-in to operas and plays and consists of

which we can read hope of survival in begging, daylight. It is true that it can companion, "I haven't read any of see them, we read "Outlines" which caslly, and

"Dickens,"

said my time-saving sporting events instead of going to

repeat either independently or for those

his stuff since I left school. It's too condense the itnowledge of a hurry. We eat in a

We have to do who exploit them. The situa-

travel in we have long-winded; there isn't time for it into a few chapters, tion is one which cannot be consider the possibility of in- in these days."

hundred thousand devices all una hurry,

work.in 4

a hurry,

and amuse viewed with complacency. A stituting a modified form of that He did not notice that he was known a century ago and all devoted ourselves in a hurry. And the bur

eating new difficulty is now being en- system, with a panel of repre- uttering an absurdity. After boast to the same purpose the

destroys our digestions, the hurried work wears us out with- countered by the decision to sentatives of charitable bodies ing that he was saving three hours of saving time. And the more

bene- compensating two-hundred- on. A

mile journey he restrict hawkers' licences, hith-assisting in an advisory capa had confessed that he had no time which the less time we have in out giving us any

to do anything worthwhile. Als, and the hurriedly taken amuse- orto a medium through which city, something along the lines to read books for which his grand- Few of us have time to read any-ments bore us so much that we are charitable bodies could find work of the duties formerly dis- fathers had plenty of time. He thing but the lightest and shortest always rushing on to others

more húrried and mɑre boring still. for the deserving. The inevit charged by Boards of Guardians saw nothing strange in the fact that, of novels; anything else is, as my In short, we are so obsessed with able result is to increase the at Home. The Government has at his disposal, he sull had less too long-winded. We have no time the idea of Speed that we spend all

with every modern means of travel time-saving friend anld of Dickens, calla on these organisations. It its responsibilities in this mat leisure than the slow-moving Vic to read the newspapers; we just skim our time rushing about without is to be admitted that the estab-ter of social service, and these torions.

through the headlines

one knowing in the least where we are and lishment of a system of poor are not fully discharged by the Saved Then Wasted.

or two columns that

•attract our

our rushing to or why we are rushing to uttention. law relief would be tremend method of making grants to so-

We have no time to master the who were "seeing Britain." Arriving I once heurilo of two Americana 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 looked at his watch and sald to his 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 whe shore in naslilty to make use in this way we get so much music companion,We can only spare

time-saving methods, and we like wireless set or the gramophone. And 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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