cause it’s 1950 still?
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No, because most of the WA population already gets the benefits of extended daylight without having to mandate it. The sun is at its highest point above Perth at about 2pm already. It’s different over east, which is why I said it works for them over there, just not here.
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Timeanddate.com disagrees with the assertion the sun is at its highest point (solar noon) in Perth at about 2pm. The latest is 12.30pm.
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Provide your reasons…?
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A New Jersey resident fascinated by the clock changing from 1:59 to 3:00 when daylight savings starts.
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Is that definitely in Perth, or just somewhere within the timezone?
It is at the location 31deg 57mins S, 115deg 51mins E, so yes, definitely in Perth.
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I didn’t bother to put the clock in my car back one hour when daylight saving ended in April last year and got used to the time always being one hour ahead of what it actually was. Had the car serviced in September last year and the bastards put the clock on the correct time. Did my head in for days.
Used to be my favourite thing to do on New Years Eve as a kid- sit and watch the time and date change on the VCR at the stroke of midnight. 8th August 1988 was pretty special seeing all the LED lights lit up at once on the date display. Good times…
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Man all this heat over what time the bloody sun comes up…
Seriously, the simplest solution is to set the time zones half-way in between and leave them there all year round. Don’t want to be woken at 5am by the sun, get automated blinds or a very well trained monkey to do it for you.
Problem solved. Now, lets work on this world peace thing…
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Nah. Daylight Savings time works fine. Stop whingeing.
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Here’s the alternative to DST.
Instead keep the same time all year and have workplaces, schools and businesses adjusting their opening hours themselves one or maybe even two times throughout the year as the sun rise/set times changes. Similarly people can adjust their own sleeping schedules as to what suits them. Go to bed early if you don’t like sunrise at 4:30am for example at the summer peak.
In terms of media they could do similar with their schedules, for example Seven and Nine could change their 6pm news bulletin to 5pm in summer if that’s when they think more people are home in the evening to watch. Today Show could start at 4:30am when the sun is rising.
Do you think this sounds complicated and confusing? Well yes, it is… hence why we have DST. Case closed. 
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I don’t have a problem with DST but I sure wish we could skip summer altogether…
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Whereas I wish we could skip winter (and I often do by flying overseas or up north for holidays).
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But then we’d have no fun with tropo!
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So you guys and gals hate the fact thay yiu can go swimming and have sunshime till lets say 8.10pm all because the sun in in your eyes?
Typical west coast attitude, oh no! The sun the SUN.
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Love the sun.
Bring on DST, LOVE IT!.
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“I believe this one hour extra sun is slowly evaporating all the moisture out of everything.” 
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More likely to do with climate change than DST.
Though the latter could be a contributor with the increasing number of household air conditioners being in use for an extra hour in the afternoon as people turn home from work etc at say 5pm local time.
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Imagine how bad the drought would be like in Queensland if we had DST!
Droughts are definitely not due to an extra hour of sunlight since there isn’t one!! The Earth’s axis didn’t suddenly shift 
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