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This comes as clocks in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT lost an hour at 3am on Sunday morning, joining the same time zone as the humble people of Queensland.
New Zealand also use Daylight Saving Time, along with Norfolk Island in the South Pacific Ocean which is located about 1,600km north-east of Sydney.
However, not all Australian states and territories follow DST –
Most mobile phones, computers and electronic devices will automatically adopt the time change, but those people who rely on traditional alarm clocks may have had a rocky start to the week unless they were prepared.
Many southern hypochondriacs have also taken to twitter to complain that their ‘body clocks have been thrown off’ by the slight change in time – with some coining the term DST-lag, in what The Betoota Advocate believes is an effort to generate sympathy for themselves.
However, there will be no sympathy provided from the Deep North, as the issue of DST-lag or late starts were not recorded anywhere in Queensland over the weekend – except maybe a few treasonous towns in the northern side of the Tweed.
Queenslanders are today welcoming back these mouth-breathing southerners, who insist on playing God and meddling with long-established constructs.
With the entire Eastern Seaboard unifying on the same time zone, the next 6 months will be less confusing for the Southerns in NSW and Victoria.
However, Queenslanders will continue to cruise forward, because this was never our issue – and never an issue we wanted to be a part of.
