When I was growing up and living in Queensland, I didn’t get the point of daylight saving.
Now I live in South Australia and I love it. 
Just arriving home from a long drive at 8pm and the sun’s just setting? Yes please! Granted, my body clock took a while to adjust.
An interesting video on the issue. The US has sprung forward last weekend and will continue to do so until Sunday, November 6 2022
Funny how the US Senate passed this unanimously and now there are plenty of people complaining about having to get children up in the dark.
I would’ve thought the senators would’ve realised this ‘one size fits all’ is obviously going to be good for some and (at least slightly) worse for some others.
I would have thought Australia would beat the US to this. It seems very capitalist to designate all the daylight hours to work, and none to families. We need to get a move on and make the change.
Australian states & territories can’t even agree on whether to use Daylight Savings or not; the number of timezones during summer is ridiculous.
In Australia, it’s up to the states. The Federal Government should decide if daylight savings should be year round or not.
There’s an interesting article commented on that twitter link.
I wasn’t expecting this but I am glad the Senate have finally done something useful. Hopefully the House will get on board and I can finally rid myself of this stupid twice yearly change once again.
I never cared about whether they went with standard or daylight time. Just as long as they picked one instead of both. Winter mornings are dark either way so people will get over it.
ps: My parting gift to WA was voting no for daylight saving at the last referendum before I left for the US 
The US states weren’t all on board either. Arizona doesn’t observe daylight saving and neither does Hawaii but Hawaii is so far away it doesn’t really affect much.
Also Florida voters voted in favour of permanent DST a few years back but nothing happened since any time change requires Congressional approval. It is no surprise that Rubio (from Florida) was one of the sponsors for this bill.
I am interested to see what Arizona will do now. I doubt they will want to have their own timezone all year round but who knows.
Sunrise in Melbourne in winter would be after 8:30am if running on AEDT all year round, which is quite late. The time change there is necessary to offset the fact that sunrise is nearly three hours earlier in summer than it is in winter.
In Brisbane however winter sunrise would be just after 7:30am if on AEDT, and it wouldn’t be dark until after 6:00pm on the shortest day of the year. I could absolutely get behind that.
There should be a plebiscite in Australian whether or not daylight savings should be year round. Will be close
My understanding is that Arizona doesn’t observe DST but the Navajo Nation does? It must be a shemozzle if you live near the border.
Travelled through this area once before and it is a real mess during DST, you’ll watch your phone constantly flick between time zones
I imagine a similar thing happen in border regions in Australia, such as Tweed Heads. Fortunately there’s not a lot of population elsewhere where on our DST borders.
This - I can’t think of anything worse than year round daylight saving for Tasmania. Sunrise near 9am in the middle of winter and cold and icy mornings until later only for sunset to be about 5:30pm anyway so there’s no time to enjoy it after work. There is no one size fits all and it shouldn’t be treated as such.
Tasmanians don’t want 9am sunrise just as much as they don’t want it being bright as day at 3am in summer.
The point of standard time (a standard rather than compared to daylight savings time) is it’s a compromise across the timezone’s area.
Before standardisation each town might have it’s own timezone based on when the sun is directly above (local noon), that couldn’t work now and for basically the same reason, 5 timezones in Australia in summer is too many.
While there are genuine reasons some areas would be worse off with year-round daylight savings (or the twice-a-year time changes), Tasmania being a prime example, perhaps that shouldn’t necessarily rule it out.
I don’t understand why people seem to think it’s so difficult to change the clock though, it’s something we all actually look forward to because it means that summer is finally nearly here.
Depending on how many clocks you have that don’t update automatically, its just a bit of a nuisance more than anything.
And far less of a nuisance than it’s ever been in the past with so many clocks now automatically updating.
The thing is though, is that current system really broken? Somethings may be easier with less time zones, but the vast majority never experience any inconvenience. The compromise of having a less optimal situation is places like Tasmania, and even much of Victoria would inconvenience far more people than would benefit from the “simplified” system.