Daylight saving is almost back. What is it, where did it come from and why don't we do it here in Queensland?
Late-night barbecues, a change in business hours, and sleeping schedules thrown into disarray: welcome to daylight saving, where 2am becomes 3am and stays that way until April.
The first place to go ahead with daylight saving was the former Canadian city of Port Arthur, on July 1 in 1908, after a local businessman urged the council to move the clocks forward in summer so children could enjoy an extra hour of sun. More towns followed. Then Germany and Austria pushed the clocks forward in 1916 to reduce the use of artificial lighting to save fuel for the war effort.
Queensland’s on-again, off-again relationship with the practice comes down to disagreements across the state about whether an extra hour of sunlight is a good thing. South-east Queenslanders have mostly been in favour of daylight saving, but their northern counterparts say it would mean an extra hour of heat during the scorching summer months.Northern Queensland MP Robbie Katter has said “don’t poke the bear”.
Governments can vary this for special occasions: the Olympics in September 2000 prompted early daylight saving in some states, and all states delayed the end of daylight saving for the Commonwealth Games in 2006.People in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands don’t wind their clocks backwards and forwards.
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