Shell
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Bit of a slog the first couple days...
But glad it's here
But glad it's here
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News & Events Daylight saving time
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- May 20, 2014
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It was light here at 5.30am yesterday so when you wind the clock forward an hour it is still going to be light when I get up anyway. Only impact is that I lose an hour of my Sunday today. Oh and the curtains.
Shell
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Yeah cannot forget the poor curtains.
Sunrise 5:20 at home in Qld today meaning first light (civil twilight*) is about 4:55am.
In a few months this will become a 4:41 sunrise and civil twilight at 4:15.
Shake my head.
*Civil twilight is the brightest form of twilight. There is enough natural sunlight during this period that artificial light may not be required to carry out outdoor activities.
In a few months this will become a 4:41 sunrise and civil twilight at 4:15.
Shake my head.
*Civil twilight is the brightest form of twilight. There is enough natural sunlight during this period that artificial light may not be required to carry out outdoor activities.
Enjoy your fake hour while sitting on your nature strips, you filthy bastards
Shell
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I WILL. And shall enjoy a cold glass of milk whilst doing so. Ya perf campaigner.
- Sep 27, 2014
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Had a Gold Coast holiday in February a few years ago. The 'Sunshine State' being dark a couple hours earlier than Melbourne was amusing.
Shell
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When i went up there in 2009 was annoyed theme parks were not open late. Only Wet and Wild on a Saturday night. Otherwise they close at 5 or 6, like wtf.
peternorth
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- May 6, 2005
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It's nice to have
peternorth
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The temperature reasoning is baffling. People actually think the movement of time influences the weather/temp
Cant wait for Gardening Australia 1 hour early
peternorth
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Strongest of bumps
cant wait for Friday Night footy at a reasonable time for a few months
I just wish se qld did it for say nov to jan -3 months would do me
Milang_Panthers
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Best time of the year 
- Dec 17, 2006
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Should be a federal thing rather than state based. All Australian states and territories put the clocks forward for an hour on first weekend in October, back on first weekend in April.
Im happy to not have it
I now watch insiders at 8 instead of 9
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If we in Victoria have and daylight saving since 1971 and the clocks go forward an hour how come our calendar is the same as everyone else in Australia without daylight saving? Shouldn't we be 51 hours or a little over 2 days ahead of Queensland who don't do it
Early tv is the biggest blessing. Sport especially. I think I say this every year
- Dec 17, 2006
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One thing I've never been able to ascertain about Daylight Savings is whether there were referendums about it in the states and territories that observe DS time when it first came about. The Northern Territory hasn't had daylight saving since WW2, and while Western Australia and Queensland have trialed daylight savings on a number of occasions it has always been put to a referendum, which has always been defeated. But in NSW, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, were there referendums in the late 1960s/early 1970s where people voted in favor of daylight savings, or was it just brought in by these state governments at this time?
If you were up here we could meet in the daylight and have a coffee at the open cafes with hundreds of others
