daylight savings ends 6 april 2008 - its getting darker!!

[h0ughy (David)]

Daylight saving starts on Sunday 28 October 2007 at 2 a.m. when clocks are put forward one hour -daylight saving will end on Sunday 6 April 2008

Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia do not participate in Daylight Saving - such
enlightened souls? Which means that Australia has both horizontal and vertical time zones in summer!!
For the next few years, the start and stop DST dates for NSW, ACT, Vic and SA would be:-
28 October 2007 to 6 April 2008
5 October 2008 to 5 April 2009
History of Daylight Saving in NSW
Daylight saving operated nationally during World War I from 1 January 1917 to 25 March 1917 and during World War II for three summers, beginning on 1 January 1942.

Daylight saving was introduced again in this State on 31 October 1971 after the Standard Time Act 1971 was passed by the New South Wales Parliament.

A referendum held on 1 May 1976 submitted a proposal that daylight saving be adopted on a permanent basis. The ballot paper stated:

Daylight saving operated nationally during World War I from 1 January 1917 to 25 March 1917 and during World War II for three summers, beginning on 1 January 1942. Daylight saving was introduced again in this State on 31 October 1971 after the Standard Time Act 1971 was passed by the New South Wales Parliament. A referendum held on 1 May 1976 submitted a proposal that daylight saving be adopted on a permanent basis. The ballot paper stated:

At present there is a period commonly called "daylight saving" by which time is advanced by one hour for the period commencing on the last Sunday in October in each year and ending on the first Sunday in March in the following year.

Electors were then asked to answer YES or NO to the question:

Are you in favour of daylight saving?

1,882,770 electors were in favour; 868,900 were against and 35,507 votes were informal. This is a ratio of 13:6 in favour.

In 1988 Parliament amended the Standard Time Act 1987 (which superseded the 1971 legislation) to fix the dates of daylight saving (beginning with the summer of 1989/90) from the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in March. This was the period which had been observed since 1971 except for an extension in 1981/82 because of power shortages and extensions during four consecutive summers, beginning 1985/86.
In 1995 a further amendment to the Act extended the daylight saving period to the last Sunday in March, effective from the summer of 1995/96. Daylight saving in New South Wales now finishes on the same date.

[GTB_an_Owl (Geoff)]

you are a wealth of information Dave

NOT busy to-day ?

geoff

[erick (Eric)]

I like daylight saving. I like being able to relax and take my time getting to an observing site and still set up in twilight, then sit back and relax and watch the stars pop into view. The mid-winter rush away from work and still ending up setting up in dark isn't that appealing. On the other hand - many hours viewing and still off to bed around midnight/1am is good! As is the cooler conditions and seeing.

[ving (David)]

get back to work david

ty for the info tho

[leon]

Boy, i will be glad that is over.

Leon

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by GTB_an_Owl

you are a wealth of information Dave

NOT busy to-day ?

geoff

sorry i have been too busy to reply Geoff. Na flat out mate, up to number 41 of 1488 drainage complaints........

Originally Posted by erick

I like daylight saving. I like being able to relax and take my time getting to an observing site and still set up in twilight, then sit back and relax and watch the stars pop into view. The mid-winter rush away from work and still ending up setting up in dark isn't that appealing. On the other hand - many hours viewing and still off to bed around midnight/1am is good! As is the cooler conditions and seeing.

oh well, back to using a torch

Originally Posted by ving

get back to work david

ty for the info tho

working as hard as you vingo

Originally Posted by leon

Boy, i will be glad that is over.

Leon

yes to much for the ole brain cell to take in - country time is -3 hours

[acropolite (Phil)]

Further to Sir h0ugh's history, may I add that Tasmania was resposible for reintroducing daylight saving and convincing the states that it was a good thing. So, not only is our wonderful state government to blame for much of the C02 that gets in to the air from forestry destruction and burning, they are the reason you have to endure a six month long time warp.

Tasmania may be our smallest state, but they had great influence on why we have DST in Australia today. The Tasmanian state government implemented Daylight Savings in the summer of 1967 to save power which saved water. A severe drought in the state made it imperative that DST be used to help the situation. As it turned out, they liked having DST in Tasmania so much so that they have continued it ever since. Because it was such a success, the Tasmanian state government pushed to get DST used Australia-wide.

[JethroB76 (Jeff)]

WA do have daylight savings at the moment don't they?

They're doing a 3 year trial and will decide for good on it in 2009 I think. Those I've heard from over there don't like it though so it'll probably get the bullet.

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

Yes, that's right. Summer No. 2 at the moment. If it's not laid to rest next year I'm going to...to...something awful, at any rate. grrrr....

[spacezebra (Petra)]

Hi David

What! only up to no 41, use a shredder!

Cheers Petra

[astronut (John)]

I think Daylight saving is a big waste of time (no pun intented)
Here we are in the Melanoma capitol of the World, so what does our State Government do.
They extend D/L saving.
Rearranging our time zone to "enjoy" our daylight at the end of the day instead of the beginning, so exposing a greater number of people to our dangerous Sun.
I'd like someone to explain the sanity in this!!!

[Ric]

I'll have to agree with Erick, I enjoy daylight savings. The extra light gives me time to get get home and do the chores then set up with no hassles or rushing around.


John, just remember to "slip, slop & slap" for the extra hour.