I’ve just experienced my first daylight saving and I can’t disagree more with this.
I think having daylight saving is the perfect option to keep morning sunrise at a reasonable time year-round and to add some after work time during the summer months when the longer days allow for it.
The actual time change was not annoying at all. Most things are automatic nowadays. In the 3 days since DST ended, I haven’t found a single clock on the wrong time. Parking meters, electronic signs, etc. all adjusted automatically.
On Sunday morning, it took less than 5 minutes to change the analogue clocks and the microwave clock I have and that was it. No real inconvenience at all. My alarm clock, phone, computer, tablet, clock in my car, etc. all changed automatically.
5 minutes spent changing a few clocks twice per year is really not annoying and unnecessary in my opinion, compared to the benefits of the longer days that DST provides.
Not time and time again, once. There was one single referendum in 1992. Government polling in 2007 and constant unofficial media polling has shown time and time again that there are now more people in favour than not, unlike the one referendum.
I do agree that NT doesn’t need it. But that’s because they are effectively already on year-round DST. As I said above earlier, Solar Noon in Darwin in Summer is 1:00pm and in Winter is 12:50pm as it is, so they’re basically already on DST.