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I'm a morning person - I loathe and detest DST. I hate having my early morning cool walk time stoiledn by DST.
And because we are just a few kms south of the Qld border and the house faces North with a hill behind it, we can only get Qld TV. So it is all an hour LATER! Grr. News is at 7pm, not 6pm.
And the extra daylight in the afternoon DOES increase energy usage as people are home earlier and turn on their air-cons to cool their houses. And they are up 'later' so miss the opportunity to open up and let early morning cool air come into the house, and tend to turn the a-c on in the mornings towards the middle of summer.
MY partner works from 2am-11am, so we go to bed early and it is still light and hot, makes it very hard for him to get a good night's sleep. Why can't we follow the natural flow of the seasons as nature intended? Why must we be ruled by the clock? Surely if people get to work and work with in a certain set hours limit - say between 8am and 6pm anbd work their required hours, then commerce will not suffer.
I'd far rather go back to no DST at all, Australia wide.
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