I bought 2 x basic Lenovo Smart Clocks a couple of years ago - one for the bedroom and one for the lounge room.
I think they were only $39 each.. worth it just to not to have to change the time twice a year, and never goes out of time.
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True, was more just pointing out that northern hemisphere countries now spend 8 months a year in DST, whereas Australia (for the states that observe it) still splits it evenly with 6 months on DST and 6 months off.
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It is still too long in DST should be 4, 8 like it was years ago before they kept increasing it.
No!
It’s better now. In fact, having it for longer that 6 months would be even better.
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No!
It’s worse now. In fact, having it for less that 6 months would be even better.
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You’re all wrong.
It starts too late and finishes too late.
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DST should be permanent all year round. I don’t mind a dark morning (and as a shift worker, I welcome the extra dark hours to make drifting off to sleep a tad easier) and the extra afternoon/evening sunshine is wonderful.
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You’d get too many complaints in places like Melbourne and Hobart where it wouldn’t be light until after half past 8 in winter, everyone would be going to work in the dark. Although where I am in SEQ could very easily work on UTC+11 all year round without issue - sunrise would be about 7:35am and sunset 6:00pm in the depths of winter.
@AustralianAerial is right though, if we’re going to have it for six months of the year, it should align with the equinoxes - start it in mid-September and end it in mid-March. Aligns better with the sunrise/sunset times that way.
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Well if people can’t get up in the dark like noat people and that’s their complaint says a lot about them really.
Plenty of people get up at 3 or 4 or 5am to go to work you don’t aee them complaining .
I get up for work at 3am a lot of the time and complain regularly to anyone who’ll listen.
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Always knew you were secretly Mike Hosking
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People who get up at 3 or 4am generally know they are the exception and accept that need to wake up in the dark for whatever reason.
We are by nature diurnal creatures, waking up with the light is natural to us. So it’s no surprise that people don’t like rising in the dark.
I get yo when my body says too after a good rest if it gets up at 3am in the dark than fine
there’s no great mystery .