Your Ultimate Daylight Savings in Queensland Pros and Cons List

The occasional debate about Daylight Savings in Queensland started up again recently, with another call for a referendum on one of the biggest debates in Queensland, quickly shut down by the politicians who aren’t interested in an expensive vote that isn’t about them. Or Antony Green.

Daylight Savings in Queensland always produces passionate debate, and since we love a good story and argument we thought we’d search as much internet as we could, and listened to as much talkback radio as we could stand to bring the best of either side.

We’re not taking sides, just bringing you the best of the thoughts, arguments and conspiracy theories.

The Ultimate Daylight Savings in Queensland Pros and Cons List is here.

Pro Daylight Savings in Queensland

Here are the best of the reasons to have daylight savings.

The Sun won’t be up at 4:15 in the height of summer, hurting chances of a decent sleep in before the humidity kicks in. If it leaves. Also the early sun is encouraging the second most annoying sound of summer – cackling crows in the trees outside your bedroom. Of course the most annoying sound of summer is Michael Slater.

We won’t be behind NSW and Victoria for half a year, and remain ahead of South Australia.

The difficult task of trying to work out when a sporting event is would be removed with just one time zone.

The “extra hour of sunlight” occurs after you have finished work for the day, making you more likely to actually do something with it. Unlike the “extra hour of sunlight” in the morning where you can’t do much, except for the most anti social of people on earth – early morning golfers.

Shaun the Sheep finishes at 6:30 on ABC Kids Queensland time not 7:30 without Daylight Savings in Queensland.

A plane could land at the Gold Coast airport in the one time zone.

Sales in Hawaaiian shirts would dramatically increase.

An afternoon beer after work is more justified if it is in sunlight.

Stumbling out of a nightclub in the early hours of a summer would not be so bad if it were still dark at 4:30am.

Anti Daylight Savings in Queensland

Here’s the best of the arguments to stay as is, and remain an hour behind in summer.

Kids won’t eat dinner or sleep.

Curtains fade due to extra hour of daylight.

Cows won’t get used to change in schedule for milking.

We will be on the same time as NSW and Victoria.

It affects businesses around Coolangatta.

One person on ABC radio argued that it would stuff up all the bus timetables. And given how bad QR are at doing a timetable, we wouldn’t want to make it worse.

It means that we get the southern states horse racing an early hour than in winter, giving those who like to get an early punt in during the midweek a chance to do it over lunchtime. And afternoon/evening sports comes on an extra hour early.

It is just a snobby city based luxury and first world problem.

We’d possibly have to split the state in two. Although depending on your viewpoint of the rest of the state outside SEQ that might not be a bad thing.

To annoy the Chamber of Commerce types who come out and say that not having Daylight Savings in Queensland costs business 178 Billion or some other unbelievable and hard to prove amount.

Because it is so hard to change a clock once a year. Even though most people use phones for their clocks which does it automatically.

Like a mild case of jetlag, our bodies never fully recover from the impact of moving an hour back and forth six months apart.

Bakers will have to get up an hour early. 

A referendum would cost a lot of money, and our politicians aren’t paid to make decisions.

No one wants to eat meals when it’s hot, but eting later leads to weight gain, so the Queensland government may face class action legal cases about obesity in Queensland.

AND THE ULTIMATE WINNER OF THE ARGUMENT IS…..