Letters to the editor: Dark mornings not worth extra hour of light at day's end

One reader ponders daylight saving. Photo / Getty Images

The advocates of retaining daylight saving have not given any thought to the mornings.

They can only see an extra hour of daylight at day's end.

I personally find dark mornings very depressing and feel it most when we get towards the end of daylight saving. If it were to continue, the mornings would become progressively darker.

As I was listening to the radio the other day, sunrise at Stewart Island was mentioned as being shortly after 8am. If daylight saving was to continue throughout winter Stewart Island sunrise would be about 9.30am on the shortest day and only about 10 minutes earlier in Dunedin.

Do the advocates really want to do that to their fellow Kiwis?
Madeleine Cook
Katikati

Easter shopping hours
I agree with the many people who have shown their distress at the confusion over the shop opening restrictions in New Zealand. We had a similar problem in the UK many years ago.

Surely the time has come for shopkeepers to choose for themselves and for shoppers to also decide if they should shop on the Easter and Christmas holidays.

People will not attend church just because the shops are closed and provided shop workers are fairly treated with regard to having to work and given time off in lieu and/or sufficient extra pay then surely that would solve the matter.

I really think a more intelligent approach to this matter would be favourable instead of this confusion every year!

Jim Adams
Rotorua