Yes sorry you’re right, technically, but practically… how many of us even know the names of our local councillors?
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I’m in Brisbane this week for work.
Noticed my Apple Watch is showing sunrise in the morning is at 4:44am.
Given that, it would have to start getting light around 4am.
Absolutely ridiculous that daylight saving isn’t used here, honestly.
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As a QLD that isn’t used to Daylight saving, I have a question for those that are used to it.
After holidaying in Melbourne over the last few days, i’ve been really surprised to see how many clocks are still left on AEDT, despite DST ending a week ago.
Obviously it’s only been one week since the change, but I was actually still surprised.
Obviously in most places everything is correct.
But I have noticed a few clocks attached to billboards, in a few shops, etc. showing AEDT time still, and then where i’m staying, every single clock is still on AEDT, the clocks in each elevator, in the lobby, and all clocks inside the apartment room, all still on AEDT.
Is it common for these to not be changed for a while?
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Always takes a little while, the automated ones are so much better now with the mobile networks being pretty seamless now - before it used to be a bit of a gamble of if and when and whether your device needed a restart etc…
As for the manual ones, depends where and how long they take for people to get around to them. I remember in school each classroom teacher would get a kid to do it or do it themselves in the first lesson. But I noticed the gym I go to finally updated their clock a few weeks ago to daylight saving time which I thought was pretty pointless now that there was less than a month left.
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The only clocks I have to change are the oven, microwave and the two in my car, and it usually is a few days before I change them as they are not that important. Everything else including my clock radio is automatic.
I honestly don’t know how the cows handle the change… without opposable digits, just how are they supposed to get the crown out on their watch?
Poor animals.
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I’m a Victorian and I just wanted to come in here and gratuitously rail against daylight saving once again. That’s all, really.
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I bet you call it a parmi too you treacherous swine
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No, in fact I just had to Google parmi to make sure my guess was right. I would never call it that.
P.S. I don’t get out to pubs much.
What else do you call it unless you can’t spell. Of course it’s a chicken parmi! Parma sounds so pretentious. Can’t wait until Daylight Savings again! Summer is on the way then!
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Parmi sounds cutesy. 
Parma sounds natural to me, not pretentious at all. ‘Parm’ plus the ‘a’ at the end. It’s also happens to be the name of the Italian town that the parmesan cheese in a chicken parma comes from. Parmi is Aussie slang at its most tacky. Horrible.
Time is continuous, so clocks should be too, not jumping around and making people an hour late for church or whatever. It causes havoc with schedules such as EPGs and generally just complicates things. Every year there are four different time differences with other countries that also have DST. Get rid of it and everything is clean and simple and I don’t have to keep changing seven clocks! Just do things an hour earlier in summer if you want to, but leave the clocks alone. /rant
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You’re all spoiling a perfectly good schnitzel by putting the other stuff on top of it.
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“Parma” sounds like you’ve cut yourself off and not finished the word. “Parmi/Parmy” is all I’ve ever heard and seen, where it it called a “Parma”?
Of course, I totally reject the arguments presented.
I totally agree!
Parmigiana would be my least favourite schnitzel topping.
Though I do like a cheese with pineapple and bacon or ham topping, even a bit of nice gravy will do me.
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However you shorten it, they’re delicious IMO!
Back to the topic at hand, here’s a Media Spy poll on Daylight Saving (since we seem to have one for just about everything else on the forums):
- Yes, I love how it runs for six months a year!
- Yes, but make it shorter!
- Yes, but make it longer!
- Yes, but Daylight Saving should just run all year round!
- No, because the curtains fade and the cows get confused!
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Yeah 6 months is a bit long.
Should end in March, not April.
And the other thing I hate is the timezone madness, with 5 different time zones during DST, which is silly in a country of less than 25 million people.
I think the whole of Australia should be +9 GMT for standard time (so East goes back 1 hour, West forward 1 hour), +10 GMT in DST. I know that won’t be popular, but it’s sensible to me.
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For us in Tassie I think that last week it is really noticeable that it has gone too long. It used to end the last weekend in March. I’d be happy to go back that one week.
The chaos is nothing now in Tassie compared to what it used to be. When Tasmania was an hour ahead for the 3 weeks in October it used to be treated differently by the TV and radio stations each year. Sometimes we’d get things delayed an hour, sometimes delayed a week, other times we got things ahead of the mainland or on ABC radio special Tasmanian specific bulletins. And of course, we got the crappiest looking cover up clocks on Today and Sunrise/Agro’s Cartoon Connection (pretty sure that had a clock?)
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Sounds like NZ used to be like Tassie, which worked much better for those places further south. Ever since we’ve been aligned with Sydney (which is basically what they did), we get three extra weeks of dark mornings each autumn.
Won’t someone please think of the cows?
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