Daylight Saving Mayhem

The first Monday in October in NSW is always Labour Day and a public holiday.

To satisfy the six fingered duelling banjos of Tasmania most of the eastern states (Tas, Vic, SA and NSW) agreed to move the start of daylight saving to the first Sunday in October.

Most years in NSW daylight savings starts on the October long weekend BUT not this year. This Sunday is 30th September so daylight savings will not be fading our curtains until the weekend following the long weekend.

It's an outrage!

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Is there any real need for daylight saving anymore ?

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Dont reset your clocks, that will teach them.

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Personally I don't like it at all, even if we kept it it starts a month too early and goes on a month too long.

It is OK for the states in the roaring 40s (Tassie) but up here? Nah! Queensland, NT and WA don't have daylight savings, Lord Howe Island only has half an hour daylight savings so they are on the same time as NSW in the summer. They all survive without it.

It is not as if the states being on different times is an insurmountable problem. The NSW/Queensland border goes down the middle of streets and through the centre of the Gold Coast airport so neighbours are an hour apart for half the year. Broken Hill in NSW is on SA time anyway (half an hour behind the rest of the state).

I would be quite happy if they got rid of it altogether and only Victoria, Tassie and SA bothered with it.

Here is my car parked an hour behind me:

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We change ours about a fortnight earlier than we used to keep in line with Central European time. It caused confusion that we were 2 hours in front or behind for just a couple of weeks in Spring and Autumn.

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Of course there isn't.

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Sending children to school in the dark is not a good idea.
That was found out a few years ago when we stayed on Summer time from 1968 to 1971.

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Is there any need for daylight savings in Australia at all given how much closer you are to the equator than European countries?

I once had an argument with someone from Victoria who argued that Melbourne's Winters were as dark as Scotland's because Victoria was so far South. Wrong: Melbourne is 37 degrees South, Edinburgh, 56 degrees North.

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They go out in the dark after dinner, getting up to all sorts, what's the difference?

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You tell me, it was mostly Scotland that complained about it.