(in QLD)
2007-09-17 21:15:33 · 23 answers · asked by Laurei 3 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
i get confused for a week after the time change. i go to work too early or too late, and can't sleep normally. just leave it alone!
2007-09-25 16:42:39 · answer #1 · answered by shesh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe Queenslanders should accept Daylight Saving.
I've lived in Redcliffe, Qld for the past 5 years, after spending 60 odd years in Sydney where daylight saving has been acceptable for ages.
In the middle of Summer, the sun rises over Moreton Bay around 4.30am. It would be far better if the sun did not rise until 5.30am.
To get a good nights sleep, you'd need to be in bed around 8.30pm in which case, you'd then miss out on most of your favourite TV programs.
It really would be nice to adjust our clocks even for an hour or preferably two hours, to take greater advantage of the darkness while we are sleeping.
The advantages of using time in a much better fashion provides you with much more freedom to do things after work than you would normally do.
Daylight Saving is generally acceptable in most countries around the World. We don't want to be the only ones left behind.
2007-09-19 08:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by Roy B 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes I think we should have it. It gets light at something like 4:30 in the morning.... It makes sense to have daylight savings. And it's nice to have an extra hour of daylight at the end of a long day at work. And besides all that..... the cows will survive.....they do everywhere else.
I really don't know why we don't already have it........ queenslanders don't like change much.....pssst..... we're not a country town anymore.
2007-09-18 23:40:29 · answer #3 · answered by AussieRocker27 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Over the years there have been many arguments for and against it's introduction. I have always believed the historical impediment to it's introduction was political rather than anything else. Queensland was for many years a Country Party/Liberal Party Coalition stronghold under the Premiership of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and resisted daylight savings because of the inconvenience it would cause to the State's agricultural services.
Other arguments over the years have been used that are both for or against it's introduction. For example, it has been theorised that it's introduction may increase skin cancer rates. Other arguments are less clear cut, for example, in considering environmental impact it has been suggested that it may both assist the environment (solar power usage) and damage the environment (more transport activity, use of fuels, cars etc.).
I like daylight savings, but then again I am not a Queensland resident. I feel that daylight savings assists the quality of life of those that live in cities that have colder and variable climates. Queensland of course has ample fine weather all year round. I don't think Queensland is any worse off for not having daylight savings, but popular opinion ultimately should prevail.
2007-09-18 15:54:35 · answer #4 · answered by Craigyboy 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No. when we had the last referendum i was a teenager and thought that it should have been voted in. But now that I have lived in northern Australia I would never accept daylight saving.
To me its all just a mental exercise there is no real difference in the sunlight that is coming to us from the sun.
2007-09-19 00:48:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
initiating in 2007, lots of the USA starts off sunlight hours Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the 2d Sunday in March and reverts to generic time on the 1st Sunday in November.
2016-12-26 16:18:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have enough daylight in Queensland!!!! why should we change for other States, they are the ones who need daylight, not us
so they can change to suit us!!!
school finishes at 3pm with daylight saving
it will really be 2pm by the real time
kids will be playing after school in the bad time of the heat of 2pm (cancer time)
how MANY VOTES do we HAVE TO HAVE ????
we have already said NO!
enough with dictator's in queensland!!!
2007-09-19 09:16:34 · answer #7 · answered by ausblue 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, why not try and live on the boarder and see how frustrating it gets when you are dealing with two different times for everything. It gets very confusing at times as well.
2007-09-19 11:01:50 · answer #8 · answered by Peace 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in Melbourne. Daylight Savings is one of the most HORRIBLE of things that has been inflicted EVER. Day light savings creates a longer day and, - in the summer after a stinking hot day - I just wish it would bloody end.
The kids just refuse to go to bed. I mean, why would they want to when it is still light outside, and all the feral kids in the neighbourhood are still piss farting around outside until all hours.
Summer goes forever anyway, why would any ******** want to extend this dismal time of the year. - I mean, we are in drought, we dont even 'need' another "summer". So why do we want to extend it by keeping people awake.
People awake means = more electricity usage; more fans/airconditioners going for longer; more lighting; more tv; more video games; more beer; more sweating.... etc etc etc...
When its dark it is bedtime..... God bless WINTER at least you get to look forward to a cosy warm good nights sleep, at a reasonable hour!!!!!!!!!!
I can't see ANYTHING AT ALL desirable about daylight savings. It even stuffs the farmers up - but that is a whole new reason in itself
2007-09-18 21:40:21 · answer #9 · answered by Pooroldpossum 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
yes!! we still have the same amount of daylight as the rest of australia this rubbish saying that the curtains will fade and stuff is just stupid, its about time that qld was up to date with the rest of the states who have the same amount of sun light as we do
2007-09-18 17:05:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋