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Let us get back to Winter time

Daylight Saving ends at 3 am tomorrow (Sunday)

Radio New Zealand

Wellington, March 31, 2018

Clocks need to be set back one hour before bed tonight – with the official time change happening at 2 am.

But some are questioning the need for the twice-yearly change.

Peter Elliot on The Panel said daylight savings time as the country’s permanent time would be great.

Long Evenings good

“I like the idea that the evenings are long, and it keeps the light up so when you come home from work there is a little more light around and you get to enjoy a certain amount more home time, you can mow the lawn and that sort of thing,” he said.

He said changing the time for winter was depressing.

“You get to the end of March and it is all depression, everyone gets really depressed and it is not until you get through winter and you flick the switch and you brighten up again, why don’t we just hold onto it?”

Not Practical

But Cromwell resident Isla Burgess disagreed and said permanent daylight savings time throughout winter would not be practical in the South.

“It wouldn’t get light until about 930 in the morning, we are starting to notice it already, it is quite dark (in the mornings) and until daylight saving ends it just gets darker,” she said.

Ms Burgess said it would be better to do away with daylight savings time all together.

“I know people love the later evenings, but here, it does not get dark until very late at night. At summer solstice I can be out reading on my porch until about 1030 at night,” she said.

History of Daylight Savings

The Summer Time Act was passed in 1927 and all clocks were moved forward one hour over the period November 6, 1927 until March 4, 1928.

The next year, and until 1945, the clocks went forward only half an hour over the summer.

The Summer Time Act was amended in 1933, which extended the summer period from the first Sunday in September to the last Sunday in the following April.

The Standard Time Act was passed in 1945, which made Daylight Savings time permanent – and put New Zealand 12 hours ahead of Greenwich time – effectively ending daylight savings.

In 1974, New Zealand trialled daylight savings again. The next year it was reintroduced with the Time Act but was met with some resistance.

Farmers ignore

A farming community in Northland, Ararua, decided to ignore daylight savings time. They erected a sign that read ‘Welcome to Ararua time. Drive slowly you’re an hour early anyway’.

In 2006 a petition presented to Parliament resulted in daylight savings time being extended to its current dates – the last Sunday in September to the first Sunday in April.

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