Clocks to be wound back as daylight saving ends overnight

Clocks to be wound back as daylight saving ends overnight
Clocks in most of Australia’s states and territories will return an hour in a single day on the primary Sunday of April, as daylight saving ends for one more yr.

The change will give tens of millions of Aussies an additional hour’s sleep, whereas additionally bringing dawn and sundown earlier within the day.

Here’s every thing you might want to learn about daylight saving ending in 2023.

Swimmers at sunrise at Bondi Beach
Sunset will come an hour earlier when daylight saving finishes in April. (Getty)

When does daylight saving end?

Daylight saving finishes at 3am on the primary Sunday of April, which in 2023 is April 2 – this weekend.

It will return on Sunday, October 1 at 2am.

Do clocks go backwards or forwards?

Clocks are going backwards by an hour on Sunday, so will probably be turned from 3am to 2am as daylight financial savings ends within the states and territories that comply with it – giving everybody in these areas an additional hour’s sleep.

It’s not till October that the clocks are wound ahead by an hour.

Melbourne is without doubt one of the 5 state and territory capitals affected by daylight saving. (3AW)

Which states and territories are affected by daylight saving?

Of course, daylight saving is not noticed all throughout Australia.

New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT, Tasmania and South Australia all comply with daylight financial savings, nonetheless Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia don’t, which means residents within the final three need not do something to their clocks on April 2.

While within the minority, these jurisdictions aren’t distinctive of their strategy to sunlight financial savings; main nations like China and India are among the many many who additionally do not observe it.

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Sunset in Perth city with building and river , Perth, Australia.
Perth and the remainder of Western Australia does not observe daylight saving, however the state is not alone in its strategy. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

What will the time distinction be between the states and territories?

With daylight saving ending this weekend, the time variations inside Australia get somewhat easier as we lose two time zones, dropping from the 5 in place in the course of the summer season down to 3.

As of April 2, all of Queensland, NSW, the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania will probably be on Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Residents in the town of Rjukan, two and a half hours west of Oslo in Norway frequently spend their time in darkness. The town is situated in a valley running east to west and because of the large flanking mountains and low placement of the sun during winter, the town is enveloped in a shadow for most of winter.

The locations the place daylight financial savings does not exist

Half an hour behind would be the Northern Territory and South Australia on Australian Central Standard Time – though, unusually, the NSW city of Broken Hill additionally makes use of ACST relatively than AEDT.

An additional hour and a half behind – so a full two hours behind the japanese states – is Western Australia on Australian Western Standard Time.

Source: www.9news.com.au