As southerners wind back their clocks on Sunday to again align with Queensland, it’s time they did so permanently.
I hate to break it to you – the sun still rises and sets at the same time, even if you call it something else.Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart will wind back their clocks on Sunday as daylight saving ends and their residents rejoin the sensible and consistent world of Australian Eastern Standard Time.
I also had to help Mum as she walked around the house with the telephone playing the authoritative voice of, aka the talking clock – “at the third stroke, it will be ...” – hoping we didn’t miss any clocks in various bedrooms as we set the time.after a trial in the late ’80s and early ’90s, but it still has a lot of support in the Sunshine State, including from, who in 2023 said businesses in south-east Queensland missed $4 billion in revenue because it was out of step with other eastern states.
Daylight saving is also unsuitable for vast swathes of Queensland – if Mount Isa had daylight saving last week, the sun would have risen at 7.48am.
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