Daylight Time
 

Does Oz go on daylight time? If so, when?

My world clock tells me that right now when it is Noon on Sunday in San Francisco is 5 a.m. Monday in Sydney.

Thanks,
BigBlue

We returned from Australia a week ago. Tasmania was already on DST, but the mainland hadn't changed -- yet.

Yes its true, Tasmania leads Australia in Daylight saving, the other Eastern States will follow in a week or so but poor old Queensland is still in the 18th century as it has cows which would get coddled milk, curtains that would fade and children who would get confused if they had daylight saving! Western Australia is even talking about joining the 21Century by December!

New South Wales goes onto daylight saving time this weekend - October 29.

Here's the argument for non-daylight saving in Queensland: www.nodaylightsavingqld.com

Pat is being a Devil's Advocate here and I can just see her having a hearty giggle by putting the site up for no daylight saving debate in the hope that I will bite - well I am going to. I actually read most of it and I have to say that it handles the truth rather carelessly, in particular where it accuses the pro daylight saving people of creating a myth about those backward sods who said that their curtains would fade with the extra hour of daylight.
Being a Queenslander of many years standing, but now an ex-Queenslander, I remember too well the contra-views about the advantages of daylight saving and there were those who really believed that if you had daylight saving you actually got an extra hour of daylight in the day and their curtains really would fade, the cows would not know when to get milked, the milk would turn to sour cream and children would not go to bed till late at night.
The fact that the majority of people live in the South East of the State where most business is conducted, close to New South Wales and the sun comes up at 3.45AM in mid summer made no difference to the twits who lived on some outback plot somewhere and it would not make a jot of difference what the time was to them. The whole State has to suffer because no one can get their mind around having a split system of time whereby the western parts stay without it and the business sector in the cities to the east get daylight saving so they can conduct business with the rest of Australia at the same time.
It has been said that Queensland is the " Deep North" of Australia whereby making a comparison with the Deep South of the USA and I most certainly concur with that perception. It maybe the most beautiful state in Australia overall but one can hardly enjoy its benefits if you have to go to bed at 6PM in summer because you have been up since before 4 AM.
Anyway that is my rant for the day and I will continue to side with the pro-daylight saving people which is about 80% of the Queensland population.

Well its on again, Liz, furious rants in local FNQ press for the pro's and con's. Someone just called Premier Beattie an "autocratic, belligerent fool" for not listening to the people - apparently 64% of Brisbane and Gold Coast residents are pro-daylight saving and 61% from areas other than the south east are against it. I believe this did go to public referendum in Qld in early 90's? (before I lived in the state). One local scribe suggests staying on Eastern Standard time for areas north of Tropic of Capricorn with those south to adopt summer daylight saving. This would make the people of Rockhampton hopping mad but it must already be a nightmare for those living around Coolangatta.

The daylight savings time really screwed up my DS's contact with his Aussie girlfriend.
We moved back an hour and she moved forward an hour. They used to talk via computer twice a day. Now they can only manage once if at all.