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Daylight Savings – 2021: Starts Sunday October 3rd

Rob Greaves
Rob Greaves
I have been with the Toorak Times since April 2012. I worked as Senior Editor of the Toorak Times until 2023, when I retired. I now work as a special features contributor for both the Toorak Times and Tagg. I've been in the Australian music scene as a musician since 1964, and have worked in radio and TV and newspapers (when they were actually printed on paper) as well as working in the film industry, as the Film Unit manager on Homicide for several years. I also have extensive experience in audio production and editing.

For some Australians, Daylight Savings Time (DST) has been a part of Australian life since 1971 and in the states and territories that have it — New South Wales, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia — those Aussies see it as part of normal life.

Those that don’t are Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

In fact daylight savings was actually introduced into Australia almost 100 years ago. Tasmania was the first to introduce the procedure of setting the clocks one hour ahead as early as 1916 with the other four states and territories that have daylight savings, first experiencing it in 1917.

To have daylight savings or not to have is an annual debate, particularly in the places that do not observe it.

So, if you are in a part of Australia that experiences daylight savings you need to set your clocks ahead by ONE hour when you go to bed, although the official DST is actually set at at 02:00 local standard time (which is then 03:00 DST). 

Enjoy your extra sunshine!

 

Rob Greaves

I have been with the Toorak Times since April 2012. I worked as Senior Editor of the Toorak Times until 2023, when I retired. I now work as a special features contributor for both the Toorak Times and Tagg. I've been in the Australian music scene as a musician since 1964, and have worked in radio and TV and newspapers (when they were actually printed on paper) as well as working in the film industry, as the Film Unit manager on Homicide for several years. I also have extensive experience in audio production and editing.

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