"Bring it on" daylight saving......

[Psycho Chicken]

Love it. Nothing beats a drive down Beach Road at 8pm with the windows down. And nothing beats driving home from trade school down Beach Road with all the girls out with nothing on.

[Melz]

Absolutely luv daylight savings, extra time to train the horses and work on the car (hate working on the car in winter :() A few late afternoon cruises might be in order when the xb gets back on the road

[flappist]

The problem with daylight saving in the eastern states is purely one of geography. If you look at the shape of Australia you will see that the coast north of Byron Bay slopes NNW.

Due to the distances involved (Melbourne is closer to Brisbane than Cairnes) and the relationship to the equator (Rocky is on the Tropic of Capricorn), daylight saving pushes the time zone so far forward relativisticly that you will be going to work before light and going home just after mid day. There is not much twilight up here, the sun is either up or down.

The problem with primary production is that the livestock do not have clocks. If the cows get milked just before dark that is when they will come in, they don't care that the milk truck driver wants overtime because it is 7pm.
If you have young kids you will understand how much fun it is with overtired sprogs not wanting to sleep because it is hot and still daylight.

The split zones are a bit of a pain but then CST & WST are always out of sync with EST so we really just have to build a bridge...

[phoon]

Up here in Qld, we are to STUPID to have daylight savings. It doesnt matter that 80% of the population in cities want it. There should be 2 time zones in Qld, daylight savings time for the Capital city and Gold coast / Sunshine coast and EST (Eastern Stupid Time for everybody else). A quick footnote to all south of the Qld Border, please shut up, Im jealous.

[Falcon Freak]

I love daylight savings and wish it would be introduced sooner. In year 2000 when the Olympics were held in Australia, start of daylight savings was brought forward two months to the end of August. I thought it was brilliant and wish it would stay that way. Unfortunately in 2001 they reverted to starting daylight savings at the end of October. I would rather have daylight after 8pm than daylight before 6am.

FF

[galaxy xr8]

Day light saving's should be all yr, I love it and now I've just started a new job that I start at 7:30am and finish earlier at 4:30pm, more time to do thing's, yeah.

[MO]

Flappist,good post as for the rest of you who want daylight saving....you won't have to worry soon once the new workplace regs are in place you'll be working dawn till dark just to make ends meet...maybe!

[Feathers]

I hate daylight savings.
Actually I just don't like daylight.
It means that I will have to get up at 3.40am to go to work instead of 4.40am.

[deesun]

Originally Posted by LuvinmyEB

An hour forward..

Remember it this way, spring forward, fall back. ;)

Love daylight saving,hate these Americanisms, sorry Lovin. BTW hows the pregnancy comming along hope all is well.

[EF, What else?]

Originally Posted by pauljh74

Could be worse - some people reckon Far north QLD is 20 years behind

First things first, FNQ is by far the best places in Australia to live in. Secondly, as I happen to be stuck in Brisbane at the moment, I do agree that SEQ should have daylight saving. But, as for the rest of QLD, hell no! It just dosen't work and IS NOT NECESSARY, which i think is a pretty good reason not to have daylight saving.

[MO]

QLD,as a whole does not need daylight saving....it sucks bigtime...I know I've lived in states that have and I've lived in states and territory's that don't...give me real time anyday!!!!!!