Give Me Standard Time!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I'm so glad to be back on Standard Time! And not just because I got an extra hour's sleep! I would gladly give up getting the hour back if I never had to give it up in the first place.

I know a lot of people love DST, including my mother, a night owl. But even my mother hates the idea of year-round DST, because she remembers when they tried it. It

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[archersangel]

i wish DST was never implemented, it's messed everything up for like a century now.

sometimes i think about the people in china. they're all forced to be in one time zone (it should be 5) and how it's messing people up in many ways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_China

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Having all of China in one time zone is just wrong! It was briefly proposed here and never gained any traction.

[sallymn]

Our daylight saving started in October. I do NOT like it but I guess I've gotten used to it - and being retired, it affects me less than it used to, I just have to make sure I change the clocks or miss appointments!

Australia being the size it is, we're in several time zones anyway, states all change at different times of the year - usually a long weekend of some sort - and Queensland, which is in our zone, doesn't have any DST. So a good time is had by all....

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Wait-you don't all change together?

Parts of Indiana did not go on DST for years. We found out while visiting during DST. We should have had a clue when the clock in our hotel was off by the very odd margin of 72 minutes-no one had changed it in years. We thought we were in one time zone but effectively were in another.

We have some other states and territories that do not observe DST. It's kind of mind-bending.

END THE CHANGE!

[sallymn]

The states that do change - NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania - change on the same day; SA is an hour behind the rest of us anyway due to time zones.

Queenslnd, Northern Territory and Western Australia do not so DST. Given that the WA coast is 3 hours behind NSW anyway, it means at the minute Perth is 4 hours behind Sydney.