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It\u2019s nearly time to put clocks forward an hour. Where did daylight saving come from?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Theage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Attention body clock: it\u2019s time to lose an hour for one day and gain evenings that are lighter, warmer and more inviting throughout summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

At 2am on October 1, the clocks jump forward an hour for most Australian states. The time stays this way until April.<\/span><\/p>\n

Changes like this happen in more than 70 countries across the globe \u2013 but daylight saving has always been a bit controversial, with debates simmering from time to time in parts of the world. In Australia, a\u00a0new survey<\/a>\u00a0has rebooted the debate in states without it. Preliminary results show two-thirds of Queenslanders say they\u2019d support daylight saving while slightly less in Western Australia would be on board with change.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, how does daylight saving work? How does it impact people and animals? And does it really work?<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is daylight saving and where did it come from?<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

It might sound like a silly question, but it\u2019s a notoriously confusing one. Daylight saving \u2013 there\u2019s no \u201cs\u201d on the end \u2013 is the moving of a society\u2019s clocks forwards to make better use of changes of sunlight hours over the course of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The general idea is this: instead of being up and about when the sun rises very early in the morning (for example, 4.45am, as occurs in Queensland in December), it might be better to have extra periods of daylight in the evening, when more people are awake. So pushing the clocks forward an hour (daylight saving) means adjusting the earliest sunrise to 5.45am \u2013 and a 6pm sunset becomes a 7pm one.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the scheme of all time, it\u2019s a relatively new concept: it was first proposed by New Zealand insect expert George Vernon Hudson in 1895, when he suggested a two-hour move forward in October and a two-hour shift back in March. While his idea garnered some interest, it didn\u2019t catch on.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first place to go-ahead with daylight saving was the former Canadian city of Port Arthur, on July 1 in 1908, after a local businessman urged the council to move the clocks forward in summer so children could enjoy an extra hour of sun. More towns followed. Then Germany and Austria pushed the clocks forward in 1916 to reduce the use of artificial lighting to save fuel for the war effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The UK, France, the US and Australia quickly followed until the end of World War I and reintroduced it during World War II, again to save scarce resources, before it faded away.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tasmania became the first state to (re)introduce daylight saving in 1967 during a drought, so people would turn on the lights later and not use as much hydroelectric water storage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most other states introduced the system in 1971 but Western Australia (which tried it for three years from 2006) and the Northern Territory both rejected the idea and, after trying it, Queensland ditched it the following year (the state tried it again between 1989 and 1992, before voting no \u2013 more on that below).<\/span><\/p>\n

Queensland\u2019s on-again, off-again relationship with the practice comes down to disagreements across the state about whether an extra hour of sunlight is a good thing. South-east Queenslanders have mostly been in favour of daylight saving but their northern counterparts say it would mean an extra hour of heat during the scorching summer months.<\/span><\/p>\n

North Queensland MP Robbie Katter (son of MP Bob Katter) has said \u201cdon\u2019t poke the bear\u201d. In October 2019, he said residents in the state\u2019s north would \u201cdo nothing but suffer under daylight savings\u201d and that it would place \u201can enormous burden on the liveability and practicality\u201d of working in the region, effectively creating an extra hour of \u201cstifling heat above 40 degrees\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Queenslanders voted against permanently having daylight saving in a referendum in 1992 \u2013 54.5 per cent said no. But more recently there have been calls for daylight saving to be implemented year-long.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where does daylight saving happen<\/b>?<\/span><\/h3>\n

In the Australian states that have it, daylight saving always begins at 2am on the first Sunday in October and ends at 2am (which is 3am daylight saving time) on the first Sunday in April. That is, clocks jump from 1.59am to 3am.<\/span><\/p>\n

The easy way to remember it, to borrow from our American friends, is that we \u201cspring forward\u201d an hour during spring, and \u201cfall back\u201d an hour during fall (autumn).<\/span><\/p>\n

Governments can vary this for special occasions: the Olympics in September 2000 prompted early daylight saving in some states, and all states delayed the end of daylight saving for the Commonwealth Games in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

People in Queensland, the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands don\u2019t wind their clocks backwards and forwards. And there are other exceptions, too: Broken Hill, on the border of NSW and South Australia, follows SA\u2019s daylight saving time; and Lord Howe Island, off the coast of NSW, has its own time zone 30 minutes ahead of NSW.<\/span><\/p>\n

In effect, Australia\u2019s main three standard time zones (eastern, central and western) become five during daylight saving. If you\u2019re in Sydney and you phone a friend in Perth, for instance, don\u2019t do it first thing in the morning \u2013 they\u2019ll now be three hours behind. And there\u2019s an hour\u2019s difference between Queensland and the states directly south.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and even Antarctica all follow daylight saving \u2013 more than a billion people across the world are affected by the changes in time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite their huge land masses, China and India each have just one time zone.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most countries near the equator don\u2019t fall back or jump ahead because there is little difference in the length of daylight between winter and summer. Despite their huge land masses,\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0and India each have just one time zone (Beijing time, since the Communist Revolution in 1949; and India Standard Time, since India became an independent nation in 1947).<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2019, the European Parliament approved a measure to abolish the time changes. But the implementation was stalled by the pandemic, and another key question that stumped regulators: even if a consistent time zone is preferred for the whole year, what time do you pick? Daylight saving or non-daylight saving hours? \u201cWe have a real problem,\u201d one French member of the European Parliament\u00a0admitted<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Does daylight saving confuse cows?<\/span><\/h3>\n

In 1991, farmer Basil Johnson attempted to sue the Queensland government for damages in lost income when he was injured as he herded his cows into his dairy in the dark while the state was trialling daylight saving. \u201cWhenever man makes laws which are against the laws of nature then he is utterly wrong as far as I am concerned,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cNot even the cows think it\u2019s natural to do anything before sunrise. They don\u2019t like falling all over the place and flipping about in the mud in the dark.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fair to say you might get a little bit less milk that morning.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cows can get \u201ca little mixed up\u201d by the changes, according to dairy farmer Adrian Parkinson, who looks after his cows in Kirkstall, south-west Victoria. \u201cIt\u2019s fair to say you might get a little bit less milk that morning,\u201d he says. \u201cBut you make up for it at the afternoon milking because they produce their milk over a 24-hour period.\u201d But after the first day, \u201cthere [are] no issues with them or their milk\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can daylight saving affect your sleep?<\/span><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s worse when daylight saving starts than when it ends. \u201cWe find it harder to spring forward than back,\u201d says Australian Sleep Health Foundation spokeswoman Dr Amy Reynolds. \u201cOur short-term functioning could be a bit impaired the next day and at night it can be harder to fall asleep if it is still light.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One study in the United States found<\/a>\u00a0there were more car crashes in the days immediately following daylight saving. Reynolds says there is a link to traffic accidents if you are tired \u201cbut that is common at any time you are not getting enough sleep\u201d. \u201cThe main take-home message is if you are doing things that mean you are losing sleep, be mindful of the impact that can have when you are out on the road,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are three types of clocks that regulate patterns of health, explains Dr Jacob Crouse from the University of Sydney\u2019s Brain and Mind Centre: the body clock, which is the \u201cmaster timekeeper\u201d in our brain; the sun clock, \u201cthe most predictable time cue in the environment\u201d that our body clock follows; and the social clock, which society agrees to use to function cohesively.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daylight saving \u2013 a change in our social clock \u2013 can \u201cput our body clock out of whack,\u201d Crouse says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem like a big change, it\u2019s just one hour of lost sleep, but it takes a little while for our body clock to catch up, and that lag between our body clock and the social clock can cause problems.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Teenagers and evening types (or night owls) are among those who appear to be particularly affected. That\u2019s because they\u2019re biologically programmed to prefer a \u201cdelayed sleep-wake\u201d schedule: they like going to bed late and waking up later (even if they\u2019re supposed to be up early for school). \u201cWhen we turn the clock back, we are asking these people to fight even harder against their biology,\u201d Crouse says. He points to a\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0that shows people who find it easy to wake in the morning can adjust to daylight saving within a few days, but those who prefer the evening can take more than a week to adjust. \u201cWe are essentially asking people to fight against their genes,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

The effects are related to the\u00a0changing\u00a0<\/em>of time, not the new daylight hours themselves \u2013 which Crouse believes, from a health perspective, is good enough evidence for a year-long consistent clock.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Sveta Postnova, a senior lecturer in neurophysics and brain dynamics at the University of Sydney, says most people adjust relatively easily to the time changes, but people can lose sleep for \u201cat least a week\u201d after the clocks are moved forward one hour. The autumn transition, on the other hand, is popularised as adding one hour to sleep time, she says, but data shows no evidence of extra sleep on that night.<\/span><\/p>\n

This explainer was first published in 2019 and has since been updated<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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