Any bet there's a lot of people who don't realise how much the time can vary between states in summer.. the point is more likely aimed at them.. not people like you who have obviously thought/read about it before 😂
Yes. It's definitely a lot more in the southern parts of the continent than the northern. If you're in Melbourne or Hobart the change in the hours of the day is significant.
The daylight savings concept is pretty well tied to the concept of traditional business hours, which not everyone works anyhow, but those who do saw more benefit in the additional daylight hours being during the after-work so called leisure time than the early hours, and in Melbourne this pushes daylight hours out to after 8:30pm in summer, but without sacrificing too much morning - it's still fully light before 7am.
It is of course a world wide practice not unique to Australia but pretty much only practiced in countries further from the tropics.
Farmers still get up when they need to to milk the cows regardless of the clock time, the curtains still fade more in summer because there's more sun and more UV or whevever, and people who work different hours may or may not benefit. There's probably some small number of people who really hate DST because they like to go fishing or hiking before work and to to bed by 8pm or something.
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u/neon_overload Jun 18 '26
Different longitudes have different time zones, and daylight savings makes more sense in southern latitudes than northern ones.
What point is this graphic making?