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I grew up in Canada with daylight savings time. Even with it, sunrise in the summer was around 4:30am and sunset around 10:00pm. I always hated DST and found it to be a general PITA. Saskatchewan, the province next to where I grew up, didn't have DST and I always envied them for it.
So now I am in Australia, working for an office in California. They have DST there, but it runs 180 degrees out of phase with DST here. Were DST implemented in Queensland, instead of just a 1 hour shift twice a year, I would see a two hour shift against California, but it would take place in two stages on and two stages off due to differences in start and end dates. Meetings that are at 8:00am for me part of the year would shift to 7:00am and then to 6:00am a week or two later. Ick, no thanks.
I don't get the argument that DST in any form is good for business. It just adds an extra layer of complication in planning meetings etc. I much prefer doing business with my colleagues in Japan and China, who are on a fixed time offset just like Queensland.
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