Twitter Tardis time
Posted February 17th, 2010 by debritz
Twitter is a great tool for other media - as demonstrated yesterday in Brsbane where local media were able to provide flooding and transport-delay updates. But, as I've said here before (and on 612ABC last week), it presents a problem for national media trying to promote their shows when daylight saving means "live" is not "live". Some advice for tweeters from national TV and radio programs that are shown on delay interstate: how about adding to the tweet the time the segments you're promoting will be seen/heard elsewhere? People who don't live in the southern vortex get mighty upset when it's assumed that they do.
I agree with you that tweeting things as live (and in some cases, referring on air in delayed telecasts to things as live) can be incredibly deceptive and frustrating.
However, in the case of Queensland, its more your backward government's refusal to adopt DST that creates the problem in the first place. :P
I agree with you about daylight saving. I voted for it, as did most of the south-east when we had a referendum. But what about people in WA and SA, who really don't have a say about the time?
There is a good reason, why we need to have a referendum on DST again.
Population growth is no laughing matter. I reckon if there were a referendum, the commercial networks would support it, as it would shave costs, when broadcasting in Queensland.
I don't reckon either the state government or the opposition has the courage to do it; they'd lose votes in the north and west.
Just subtract one, it's not that difficult. Although it may be a challenge for anyone educated in Queensland's schools
Er ... actually, in regard to the Tweets we need to add ah hour - i.e. when they say something is on "now", we need to tune in an hour later.
Daylight Saving in Queensland is, and always will be, favoured in the South East region only and not the rest of the state. Therefore, to move forward, doesn't it make sense to give the majority of people within the state, what they would prefer? A dual time zone would allow this to occur - having Daylight Saving introduced into the South East Queensland region only, with the remainder of the state continuing on Eastern Standard Time.
Given that continuing with the current status quo is annoying and frustrating for those of us in the South East, and given that introducing Daylight Saving state-wide would upset those in regional and rural Queensland, a dual time zone is a real opportunity to resolve this issue once and for all. A dual time zone has never been trialled, nor voted upon in Queensland, and is a viable alternative.
Next Monday 22 February, represents 18 years to the day, since the Referendum was held. How can a result of a vote from 18 years ago, reflect the current community sentiment? Time to revisit this topical issue!
Brett - Wasn't it Bill Shakespeare at the old Bull and Bush - England's first laptop pub - who turned to Beaument and Fletcher (drinking companions) as a pole dancer turned her plump bottom toward them said:'Neither a twitter nor a tweaker be!'