The History Behind It: Daylight savings first began in New Zealand in 1909. Sir Thomas Kay Sidey annually put forward a bill, to advance the clocks forward 1 hour from September to the following March. In 2007 the government extended daylight saving from 24 to 27 weeks. Daylight savings now begins the last Sunday in September until the first Sunday in April.
Daylight Savings ends for us Kiwi's tonight so before you go to bed remember to wind your clocks back one hour! I will miss sitting outside at night and watching the sun go down over our beautiful mountain! Here is a picture of the sun setting over our farm, to me it's picture perfect! Roll on September!
I like that post Emily. I like the information you said about how it all began
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the nice comment Mackenna I am glad you like the information I thought it was very interesting, Emily
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ReplyDeleteI know Jacqui you just can't beat a Naki sunset! Emily
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ReplyDeleteGreat independent idea for a post. What countries have Daylight Savings that you know of? Does everyone have it? Is the picture that you have as part of your post an original picture that you took?
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Thank you for leaving a comment I will have to find out about other countries and daylight savings, yes this was an original picture that I took but I understand as it looks to good to be true! Emily
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ReplyDeleteWhat a terrific post! You must be a fabulous blogger if you are coming up with ideas and posting on your own.
I am a third grade teacher in California, and we just started Daylight Saving Time here! As you know, it is spring here in the northern hemisphere so the days are getting long and with Daylight Saving Time, the days seem even longer!
I love the title of your blog! Very clever!
As many have noted, your photo is lovely. My class has a photo-of-the-day blog and you are free to contribute if you'd like. Here is a link with the directions for submitting and the text to include if you'd like. Mr. Webb has contributed to it many times!
Join our 365 Project
Happy blogging!
Mrs. Y♥llis
P.S. I found your blog through the comment section of one of my former students, Sarah. She has Come Somersault With Sarah as her blog!
Thank you very much for commenting Mrs.Yollis! I am very glad you liked you enjoyed my post and heading, thank you for allowing me to contribute to a class project of yours and thank you also for calling me a fabulous blogger! Thank you very much for commenting! Emily, Room1, Auroa School, Taranaki
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ReplyDeleteYou are very, very lucky to have had such an amazing comment from Mrs Yollis who is the best blogger in the world (she's actually won awards for exactly that, twice) You can contact her and leave a comment back and think about whether that you want her permission to use your photo.
Mr Webb
Thank you Mr.Webb I also agree what an honour! Emily
DeleteEmily - also to let you know I have just forwarded you an Email from The Weetbix Triathalon organser. They have passed your blog onto Temupara Bailey whose read it apparently and also they want to feature your blog on the official Weetbix Triathalon site, which should mean a lot more people get to read it.
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WOW! This is amazing! I was very excited when i realised that temparu bailey had read this! Emily
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