With a lot of people working from home now, for some working days commence @7am…or even earlier, meaning the working day finishes earlier at 3 or 4 o’clock…giving that extra hr of light at the end of the day. Flexibility can solve the issue as well……as much as I love daylight saving and would welcome an all year change
Here we go again. Personally I’m not a fan of daylight saving in Western Australia. It’s too hot at 8pm in summer from 2006/07 to 2008/09 when the three year trial took place. Also too dark at 7am in March
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No, I’m good - leave it the way it is, we really don’t need Daylight savings!
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Daylight saving in WA is the pest that won’t go away. The fact that Tucker even got elected is ridiculous.
He will make some noise but ultimately this will go nowhere. Easily shoved to the been there done that pile.
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We don’t really need it. Had I voted in the 2009 referendum (I was just about to turn 15), I would’ve rejected it.
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And cue the annual “Why Do We Have To Have So Many Timezones in the Summer?” debate!
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Plus the usual proposals for a ‘border bubble’ for the Gold Coast or a split north south timezone in Queensland.
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September is ridiculous in Melb, decent light at 5:30am when everyone is sleeping, then getting dark at 6pm when everyone could really use some sunlight.
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Macca mentioned it on ABC Radio a couple of times as per usual this morning complaining about how he hates DLS.
It actually seems to have been a very quiet changeover this time. Haven’t heard much about it at all and I haven’t even reset any clocks with the majority of them now completely doing it automatically. I happened to wake up right at 1:55 this morning and had the google hub and my phone right next to me and I saw them both change seamlessly from 1:59 to 3:00 unlike the old days where they might need a restart or sometimes had issues.
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Has he got any new material, or still trotting out the “greatest hits”?
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I was pleasantly surprised but I didn’t listen too much because quite frankly I already had a headache and it was going to be made worse with the grimacing he causes! Pretty much it was when people wrote in that they don’t like it and he’d agree - he might finally be accepting that it’s happening and many people like it!
Thank God for daylight savings. Can finally go for my evening walks again 
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Since DLS last ended, I replaced all my clocks with smart ones, and when I woke up at 9.30am i thought to myself ‘9.30! OMG I’d better get up’ forgetting i now have smart clocks which had already updated the time.
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The switch to DS has caused EPG issues in the past IIRC.
The only issue I had with the switchover to DST is the ‘time thief’ issue- whereby an hour is deducted from the weekend. You do notice it the first morning like what Radiohead experienced as he slept in quite late. But a moot point now given the changeover (almost) always happens on the October long weekend.***
I went to bed an hour earlier last night so that I didn’t get up too late!
***You can get the scenario where the clocks change the weekend after the October long weekend, if Labour Day is October 1 (hence the Sunday is September 30).
I went to bed at 5am last night and got up at 3pm, one hour later than I usually go to bed and get up (if I don’t have things on). It is the latest I have slept until.
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Mr Schrinner said one study estimates Queensland misses out on up to $4 billion without daylight saving.
But Townsville Mayor, Jenny Hill, said north Queensland residents already knew where they stood on the matter.
“We don’t need to extend the time by an extra hour to get time during summer. It happens for us naturally,” she said.
“Queensland is a big state and once you get past the Tropic of Capricorn it’s a little different for us here in the north. In summertime, we have sunsets that occur 50 minutes after they occur in Brisbane.”
“If Brisbane wants to be a separate state because it wants daylight saving and wants everything else that people have in New South Wales — join New South Wales. Queensland is a different place,” Ms Hill said.
Why does the mayor of Townsville think she can bully and insult the south east corner into not having daylight savings? If the people in SEQ want daylight saving they should be allowed to have it. If the rest of Queensland doesn’t then they can remain on standard time. Everyone wins.
A split time zone might be a little inconvenient but that’s the small price you pay for keeping everyone happy with the most appropriate time zone. Heaps of states in the US are split between time zones (as is NSW with Broken Hill) and it’s not a problem in any of those cases.
Lord Mayor Schrinner will have to first convince his own party that it’s a good idea, most of the LNP at state level are dead against it for fear of upsetting their conservative rural voters.
He is right though, almost no-one here under 50 has experienced it nor had their say, and it is time. However neither party at state level is interested in starting that argument, so one wonders if the LM is simply using this as a way to attack the Labor state government (as he seems to regularly enjoy doing with many other issues outside his control).
Fortunately this year all my phone, radio clocks stayed on QLD time at the changeover. In previous years they’ve made the jump forward when on network provided time and given me a shock when I’ve woken up.
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Not a fan of the changing back and forth.
Think the AEDT (GMT+11) should just become AEST and be done with it. Move SA and NT to GMT+10 and keep WA at GMT+8
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