Daylight saving: What to do with your clocks
Daylight saving has begun, giving about 18 million Australians an extra hour of afternoon daylight.
Daylight saving has started, giving about 18 million Australians an extra hour of afternoon daylight.
The clocks went forward one hour at 2am on October 5, jumping to 3am.
People in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not get daylight saving. Neither do Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands residents, but people in Norfolk Island do.
The long weekend coincides with the changing of the clocks in NSW, South Australia and the ACT.
Most electronic devices will shift automatically, but only the highest-end microwaves have the computing power to analyse time zones.
The change also means mainland Australia has five time zones during daylight saving. Queensland stays on Australian Eastern Standard Time, the ACT, NSW, Tasmania and Victoria are on Australian Eastern Daylight Time, South Australia is 30 minutes behind on Australian Central Daylight Time, the NT stays on Australian Central Standard Time and WA stays on Australian Western Standard Time.
Daylight saving runs until April 5; losing that extra daylight in six months comes with a bonus extra hour of sleep.
Workers on night shift typically are paid for a regular shift on the start and end of daylight saving. Most awards and industrial agreements state the worker is paid for a full shift, regardless if the clocks have lost or repeated an hour.
A fourth referendum on daylight saving in WA in 2009 was defeated with a 54.5 per cent “no” vote.
Queenslanders rejected change at a referendum in 1992, returning the same 54.5 per cent “no” result.
Originally published as Daylight saving: What to do with your clocks
