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What are people's thought's on this. Hearing on the news today that there is a move to extend it by a month. I for one would love that to happen. Always good having more time to do stuff in during summer, and I dont understand why NT, WA, and Qld do not do it. What does everyone think of the issue, and Daylight Savings in general?
 
WA did have it for a couple of years but they took a referendum and the general concensus was to scrap it. The days are long enough over there without extending it by an hour.

I personally love daylight savings. Wont worry me if we do extend it by the extra month
 

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Yes please.

And someone tell those backward backwater banana benders to get wid the progy. A little bit of keeping up with the times wouldn't harm those rednecked conservative sandgropers either.

We already have 5 months, 1 month is hardly a huge leap.
 
No point in WA coming on daylight savings, since its a different time zone either way.

What I don't understand is why the push is for all the other states to align their daylight savings period with Tassie, instead of Tassie falling into line with the others.
 
TimN said:
No point in WA coming on daylight savings, since its a different time zone either way.
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Nothing to do with it. It's about having more or less daylight at the end of the day in warmer months. Wouldn't matter where you lived, if you changed your clocks anywhere in the world, it has an affect the time the sun would rise/set.

What I don't understand is why the push is for all the other states to align their daylight savings period with Tassie, instead of Tassie falling into line with the others.
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Once again, nothing about falling into line. It's about lifestyle. The decision is purely based on whether we'd want another few weeks of the year with a bit of extra daylight after work, not what state has to conform to all the others.

BTW, Queensland should definitely bring it in. Went on a golfing holiday there a couple of years back, and got completely disoriented. The garbos picking up bins woke me up one morning, and it was complete daylight. Rolled over to see the clock at 4.30am. Finished golf later that afternoon (roughly 6.00pm), and by the time I finished my second beer, it was pitch black. The argument used that the extra sun was fading the curtains was a crack-up though.
 
It should definitely be brought in. I suppose for WA there's some argument that it doesn't matter so much, but having QLD out of alignment with NSW, Vic and Tasmania and the NT out of alignment with SA is crazy. The hicks in those states should stop worrying about the curtains fading and join the 21st century.
 

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I don't see much point in having Daylight Saving in WA. I live here and we already get a hell of a lot of sun without daylight saving being introduced.

During summer the sun is already up at 5am and doesn't go down till after 7:30pm. That's 14 and a half hours of sunlight, so I don't see the need for an extra hour. It makes you wonder what all these pro-daylight saving people are doing during this time.

I don't really want to bring it in anyway, we don't need it and the WA public has been saying that for a while now.
 
TimN said:
No point in WA coming on daylight savings, since its a different time zone either way.
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2hr time difference is better than 3. And both them are better than 2 years.;)

What I don't understand is why the push is for all the other states to align their daylight savings period with Tassie, instead of Tassie falling into line with the others.
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Although all eastern states need to be aligned, it's not so much about everyone going out of their way to align with Tassie. More a point of "6 months DLS is a good idea, let's do it".
 
Ljp86 said:
I don't see much point in having Daylight Saving in WA. I live here and we already get a hell of a lot of sun without daylight saving being introduced.
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1 extra hour of sunlight when most people are awake.

During summer the sun is already up at 5am and doesn't go down till after 7:30pm.
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6am-8.30pm >>>>>>>>>>> 5am-7.30pm

That's 14 and a half hours of sunlight, so I don't see the need for an extra hour.
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Might go kick a footy and then come home and water the garden. Might have an outdoor BBQ. Might go for a surf. Might go grab 18 holes.

The reasons are endless. That hour of sunlight is much more useful to many more people at the end of the day.

What is it with WA and their conservatism? They don't want 7 day trading and they don't want day light saving.

Tip: you guys are a fair bit more than 2hrs behind.

I don't really want to bring it in anyway, we don't need it and the WA public has been saying that for a while now.
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It's not about need, it's about convenience.
 
I think if you haven't lived with the idea, you just don't get it. Took me an hour to explain to a couple of my mates in WA last year that moving your clocks forward doesn't actually change the amount of sunlight in a given day (not having a dig at other states, my mates would be a little simple no matter where they lived). It just shifts the times of sunlight hours. When the penny dropped (actually took a trip over east to work it out), they were fired up and wanted it in.
 
Harvey Leadpipe said:
I think if you haven't lived with the idea, you just don't get it. Took me an hour to explain to a couple of my mates in WA last year that moving your clocks forward doesn't actually change the amount of sunlight in a given day (not having a dig at other states, my mates would be a little simple no matter where they lived). It just shifts the times of sunlight hours. When the penny dropped (actually took a trip over east to work it out), they were fired up and wanted it in.
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I remember having DLS in Perth as a teenager. Totally kicked arse.

TV with the One Day Cricket on facing the window, BBQ going on the patio, playing backyard cricket whilst checking the score. Gold.
 

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bunsen burner said:
1 extra hour of sunlight when most people are awake.
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And? There's 1290.5 hours of sunlight in Perth in summer. I don't see the point in shifting clocks because a small minority of people aren't happy because they aren't getting enough sunbaking time at Scarborough.

bunsen burner said:
6am-8.30pm >>>>>>>>>>> 5am-7.30pm
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Maybe so but us West Australians like our current lifestyle.

bunsen burner said:
Might go kick a footy and then come home and water the garden. Might have an outdoor BBQ. Might go for a surf. Might go grab 18 holes.

The reasons are endless. That hour of sunlight is much more useful to many more people at the end of the day.

What is it with WA and their conservatism? They don't want 7 day trading and they don't want day light saving.
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Yep and you can do all that stuff in the timeframe that we have over here.

We just don't want it (DS and 7-day trading). We like our relaxed lifestyle over here without having to be able to shop 7 days a week or having to shirt clocks forward every 6 months.

bunsen burner said:
Tip: you guys are a fair bit more than 2hrs behind.
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So? It's been that way for years. Who cares if we're three hours behind and our shops don't open on a Sunday. Big ****ing deal.

bunsen burner said:
It's not about need, it's about convenience.
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The majority over here don't think it's convenient and there is little demand or need for it.
 
Ljp86 said:
So? It's been that way for years. Who cares if we're three hours behind and our shops don't open on a Sunday. Big ****ing deal.
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I was referring to years rather than hours. You guys are a fair way behind.
 
bunsen burner said:
I was referring to years rather than hours. You guys are a fair way behind.
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Yep, that's what I meant as well although it didn't come out right.

The thing is, is that we don't really care at the moment. WA as a whole is pretty happy with the way things are going at the moment, which is why longer trading hours and Sunday trading were rejected at the referendum we had last year.
 

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