Daylight savings nz

OPINION: The clocks have changed and once again Kiwis are stuck in a timewarp.

For each of the four subsequent weekdays, the rate increased by 6 per cent. It’s not just the inconvenience of it all, some experts warn the practice is dangerous. Mothers of young children unsurprisingly also opposed the change though keep in mind it was 1974, so nobody was listening to women. A survey that year found more than 80 per cent of Kiwis approved, including just over half of the dairy farmers who took part. Fast-forward nearly 50 years and we’re still fiddling twice-yearly with the time while being entirely unsure of what the actual time is. Blue places use daylight savings in the northern hemisphere summer. In 1909 Parliamentarian Sir Thomas Sidey​ gave it a go, and after his bill was rejected he continued to bang on about it for 20 years, arguing an extra hour would provide recreational and economic benefit. Orange places use daylight savings in the southern hemisphere summer. Despite that, senators are already trumpeting its benefits, citing positive effects on public health and the economy, as well as a cut in energy consumption. Of course those that will suffer the most are the parents of young children who’ll find themselves in a special kind of hell. In general, you feel like you’ve got a hangover, you just didn’t get any of the fun preceding it. That’s how I wake up most mornings to be fair, it’s just this time it wasn’t caused by my own bad choices, and instead something I have no say in whatsoever.

New Zealanders will set their clocks back by one hour at 3 am, which will become 2 am on Sunday, April 3, 2022. This is the Daylight Saving System whereby ...

The change still has to pass the House of Representatives and signed by President Joe Biden. All rental houses must also now have smoke alarms. This is the Daylight Saving System whereby clocks are reset twice a year- one hour forward on the last Sunday in September at 2 am (to make it 3 am) and on the first Sunday in April.

It doesn't matter how many years I've been putting clocks back and forward, for daylight saving, it always takes me a while to work out if I'm getting more.

In 1974 a trial of daylight saving didn’t go down well in the Northland dairying town, Ararua, who decided they would not be adjusting their clocks. They created their own "Ararua Time" independent from the rest of us. I’ve heard all the reasons why we shouldn’t change the clocks. A poll of 1500 people by Neighbourly found that 49.3 percent wanted constant summer hours and 50.7 wanted the normal annual changes. It’s not an official move – more an experiment to see how it might work out. This morning we gained an extra hour’s sleep as our clocks reverted to New Zealand Standard time.