The change means longer days as the temperatures begins to warm in the lead up to summer.
The clocks will once again move forward an hour when daylight saving starts in October, with some states also marking the day with a long weekend.New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania will observe daylight saving while Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory will not.The clocks will once again move forward an hour when daylight saving starts in October.
Western Australia will stay on Australian Western Standard Time and will be three hours behind daylight saving states. Tasmania was the first state to permanently introduce daylight saving in 1967 as an emergency measure to save power and water supply during a drought.NSW, the ACT, Victoria and South Australia opted in to permanently observe daylight saving while Queensland, Western Australia and the NT did not.New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson and British builder William Willett have been credited for creating the modern idea of daylight saving.
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