Daylight Saving

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@jason120au

If Queensland doesn’t want to have daylight saving which has been proven time and time again in referendums that’s what they want.

I was under the impression that Queensland has only ever had a few referendums on Daylight Saving. Also the last one was, what…almost 30 years ago?

WA had one a bit more recently but there’s less need for DST over there anyway as the state is pretty well isolated from the rest of Australia.

@William_C

there should be bigger priorities than daylight savings. You either stick it for all year round or not at all. It may be beneficiary in winter but will the sun be rising earlier or later for winter?

While from a Sydney perspective I’d love to have DST all year-round, or from September to May at the very least…

@Aurora

That defeats the purpose of it in the first place - to manage the time the sun rises and sets in the state.

This is also a very valid point.

We’ll never have year round or extended DST because people generally want the sun to rise around if not before 7am at any time of year, no matter what. Of course never mind the facts that days are always going to be longer in Summer/shorter in Winter + ever extending commute times (especially in and around the most populated metropolitan areas of the country) meaning there are probably plenty of people who have to wake up in darkness all year round except maybe the height of Summer when most are usually on holidays anyway…