35 thoughts on “And so the daylight savings fun begins…”
When we lived in Lismore Chantelle, the easiest thing I found to do was to just go with whatever time it said on the clock.
Admittedly, I didn’t have a husband working over the border… I think your 2 clock idea might be a good there! If we did need to take a trip up in to QLD, then it meant being a bit more organised, but we usually made it where we needed to go on time.
Hope everyone gets used to it quickly.
Tasha
We live near the Victorian/SA border, so there is a time difference all year round!! It really on affects us during football/netball season and then in summer during bowls & basketball. It jousts takes a little extra planning!!
Go with the flow. I’m an early riser, I don’t agree with DLS. It’s not that helpful north of the central coast of NSW. I live in Canberra and can see why people like it but I’d prefer an early sunny morning rather than more day daylight when I’m cooking dinner.
Daylight Saving time in the US confuses me, but this sounds much worse than what we have. Eeekkk…good luck with the 2 clocks, it sounds like it will help.
you poor things having to live with both! I live in country NSW and we don’t really like it. With 4 kids it’s a nightmare at bedtime! I used to try and have a transition period for a week or so leading up to Daylight Saving but now I just go by the clock.
Oh, we got caught out by that once. We were holidaying in Ballina and decided to go to Movie World. We wanted to get there just when it opened. And we were certainly there when it opened!! Well and truly!
we had daylight savings a week ago here in NZ….i love it cos i want to do more things when i get home from work…so more sun/light time is just great!!! as for your issue….we looked at movie to tweed heads…..half QLD half NSW would have done my head in!!! good luck with that…and yeah i say 2 clocks!!!
I’ve lived within 1km of the Qld/NSW border for most of my life. The secret is to decide what state (timezone) you are in and mentally adjust the times to suit according to what is your ‘default’ timezone – for example I live north of the border but my nephew used to go to school in Tweed Heads. I just had to mentally tell myself that he finished school at 2pm in Summer (my time) if I wanted to pick him up, even though the school clock said 3pm. Likewise for you, if hyperthetically speaking, you had an appointment at 10am in Coolangatta you would tell yourself it was at 11am “your time”.
You’ll probably find the “your time” “my time” used a lot but it can work to your advantage if think positively. Good luck!
Ah this just makes sense. I hadn’t even thought of that. Man, that’s so simple.
So instead of Hubby working 6-3 he’ll work what 5-2 (or whatever the conversion is).
Brilliant! (Running to tell Hubby now). xx
Oh and thank you.
Told him, and he thinks it’s brilliant. Thank you again. x
So, your husband leaves for work in one time zone and when he arrives has to adjust to the time zone there, and when he gets home readjust?! We only have to deal with that when we fly accross timezones to go on holiday! That’s maybe once a year and that’s confusing enough! Maybe he could have a watch on each wrist?! Prepare for lots of ‘My time or your time?’ conversations.
Ha ha ha. Yep. All the locals say they never get used to it. Hopefully we do eventually adjust.
I hate daylight savings. Babies/Pre-schooler don’t understand it.
At least you can celebrate New Years Eve Twice haaa.x
True! BUT I usually sleep through NYE. If I was younger I would have been kerazy excited about the idea!
We could solve the problem if QLD just jumped on board with daylight savings!! I absolutely love the ‘extra’ daylight hours, it seems like such a waste that we don’t get to utilise them! There is definitely some confusion living on the Gold Coast/Tweed this time of year!!
Yes. I wish they would. Would make life easier for everyone. 😛
That would be a nightmare to deal with being on the border. We are in Victoria and love daylight savings. Luckily have never had problems with kids sleeping or waking which is probably half the battle! Really they should deal with the QLD/NSW situation.
I don’t cope with daylight saving at the best of times. I’m definitely in the ‘hate daylight savings’ camp. I don’t know how we’d cope with having to work around someone needing to dip out of the timezone daily though. Good luck.
Grrrr … and most people I need to talk to and email for business are on NSW and VIC time. Not happy Jan.
we have to deal with time difference all the time in WA. Daylight savings means NSW & vic is 3 hr ahead,qld is 2 hrs ahead, SA is 21/2 hrs ahead. Always have to think what time is it when making a phone call.
Hi Chantelle, I grew up in Banora Point and we had the same problem! Dad worked across the border in QLD and I went to school in QLD but lived in NSW! We did the ‘my time’ clock thing just like your other reader. It takes a while to get used to! The good thing when I was a kid was that we got the tv stations from both states. So if you missed a show at 7pm, you could watch it again an hour later! Maybe not so exciting what with IQ and recording shows now but back then it was a treat! xx
I live in Korea, that puts me 13 hours ahead of my mom and pop. That’s easy because in my head I can say it’s 8:39pm here that means it’s 8:39+1 AM there. That is, it’s simple until daylight savings hits. South Korea does not recognize daylight savings and so I get lucky! I don’t have to change my clock! But all of a sudden I’m messaging my mom at 8PM and wondering why she isn’t online at 7am as usual. Oh yeah, it is now 6am. I escaped day light savings but I just can’t seem to escape the confusion anyways! I’m liking your two clock idea – one for east coast USA and one for Korea. Happy loose an hour of sleep day!
Frustrating for sure. I used to have a lot more calls etc to make over the border than I do now and managed it with a similar strategy. Two clocks! Now I use the iPhone and hope like heck people will understand if I stuff it up. Good luck!!
I can’t imagine life on the border with daylight savings!
I was however, counting DOWN to daylight savings as I thought it might just buy an hour’s more sleep.
Alas, my son wakes even earlier now.
I’m at peace with the fact that I’m just the Mother of the child who doesn’t sleep, & I will forever grit my teeth when friends tell me how their children slept through the night at 3 months.
Bastards 😉 x
Oh, that must be frustrating. However, for people like me, I love it! Longer nights, darker mornings, and we all slept in til 6.20 am. A miracle!
I know how you feel. Being from Melbourne I love Daylight Savings but I am in Tweed Heads for a couple of days and travelling to Coolangatta a bit and I am confused already.
Oh no! Living in one time zone and working in another! How confusing!
For some reason I thought you lived in far north qld… no idea why but its interesting to know you live in nsw!! lol
Ha. We’re exactly the same. Luckily I work in NSW so not so difficult. The trickiest thing is when I am taking a flight. I’m on NSW time, the plane leaves on Qld time but I arrive on NSW time. I literally need pen and paper to work out what time to leave for the airport.
I live in the US and hate daylight savings time but I can’t imagine dealing with all you will have to. Yikes. I definitely can’t complain any more. Good luck!
HATE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS…battled to get kids to bed before 9pm last night now struggling to get them up and ready for school. Much prefer being up early in the morning and ready for the day then kids going to bed easily as soon as it is dark ay 7.30pm!!!! Grrrrrrr!!!!! I am sure if the government took a poll they would find a lot more people against than they realise.
we used to Live in NSW when we were younger (both hubby and I grew up there) yet never had to worry about living near the boarder – how does your hubby remember what time to get to work?
I worked on a cruise ship in the Baltic once where we had 6 time changes on a 12 day cruise – 3 on the way there, 3 on the way back. It was an absolute NIGHTMARE. Myself, & quite a lot of crew were consistently 2 hours early/late for work. The only way to know the correct time was the broadcasting channel on your TV, it meant a lot of time dashing to find the closest TV to tell you the time…..!
Time changes are bitches. I never managed to get used to it, & that was for 3 years….. Good Luck 🙂
I’m wondering what happens with your mobile phone Chantelle? I imagine the time displayed would depend on what state the signal tower is in (& would confusingly change as you changed location)??
I had NSW friends at my Victorian school who wore two watches during the two week transition between the different start dates for DLS. Very confusing catching a bus in one state to be at school in another while crossing time zones!
Good luck, hope you find a good strategy to cope 🙂 Jac
I love daylight savings and the ‘extra’ hours of summery sunshine – it’s heavenly to have ‘finished’ the day and still have time to sit outdoors and watch the sun set. Maybe the answer is a federal daylight savings system???
I can’t advise personally Chantelle as I live in Qld’s central west. But maybe the millions of people who live close to borders/time zones in the US would have some tips – continental US has 4 different time zones and 9 all up when you include Alaska, Hawaii and all their islands. The same must happen in Europe. Not sure why Australians find this such a hard concept!
I am very anti Daylight Saving for Queensland. Have been in Victoria and Tassie in summer, where it works brilliantly but they can actually do enjoyable things in the extra hour of sunlight they get at the end of the day, and have long twilights as well. My temps at 4pm EST knock-off time are often still in the 40s – not much chance of me frolicking in the sun in those conditions. Nor do I like cooking evening meals with sweat dripping down my nose and into the food or the sun blazing in my eyes while I’m doing it. And I find many Queenslanders do what Mediterranean countries do in the hotter months – get up early, have a siesta, work late. In other words, manage daylight to suit our conditions. Unfortunately other people think there has to be one rule for all.
When we lived in Lismore Chantelle, the easiest thing I found to do was to just go with whatever time it said on the clock.
Admittedly, I didn’t have a husband working over the border… I think your 2 clock idea might be a good there! If we did need to take a trip up in to QLD, then it meant being a bit more organised, but we usually made it where we needed to go on time.
Hope everyone gets used to it quickly.
Tasha
We live near the Victorian/SA border, so there is a time difference all year round!! It really on affects us during football/netball season and then in summer during bowls & basketball. It jousts takes a little extra planning!!
Go with the flow. I’m an early riser, I don’t agree with DLS. It’s not that helpful north of the central coast of NSW. I live in Canberra and can see why people like it but I’d prefer an early sunny morning rather than more day daylight when I’m cooking dinner.
Daylight Saving time in the US confuses me, but this sounds much worse than what we have. Eeekkk…good luck with the 2 clocks, it sounds like it will help.
you poor things having to live with both! I live in country NSW and we don’t really like it. With 4 kids it’s a nightmare at bedtime! I used to try and have a transition period for a week or so leading up to Daylight Saving but now I just go by the clock.
Oh, we got caught out by that once. We were holidaying in Ballina and decided to go to Movie World. We wanted to get there just when it opened. And we were certainly there when it opened!! Well and truly!
we had daylight savings a week ago here in NZ….i love it cos i want to do more things when i get home from work…so more sun/light time is just great!!! as for your issue….we looked at movie to tweed heads…..half QLD half NSW would have done my head in!!! good luck with that…and yeah i say 2 clocks!!!
I’ve lived within 1km of the Qld/NSW border for most of my life. The secret is to decide what state (timezone) you are in and mentally adjust the times to suit according to what is your ‘default’ timezone – for example I live north of the border but my nephew used to go to school in Tweed Heads. I just had to mentally tell myself that he finished school at 2pm in Summer (my time) if I wanted to pick him up, even though the school clock said 3pm. Likewise for you, if hyperthetically speaking, you had an appointment at 10am in Coolangatta you would tell yourself it was at 11am “your time”.
You’ll probably find the “your time” “my time” used a lot but it can work to your advantage if think positively. Good luck!
Ah this just makes sense. I hadn’t even thought of that. Man, that’s so simple.
So instead of Hubby working 6-3 he’ll work what 5-2 (or whatever the conversion is).
Brilliant! (Running to tell Hubby now). xx
Oh and thank you.
Told him, and he thinks it’s brilliant. Thank you again. x
So, your husband leaves for work in one time zone and when he arrives has to adjust to the time zone there, and when he gets home readjust?! We only have to deal with that when we fly accross timezones to go on holiday! That’s maybe once a year and that’s confusing enough! Maybe he could have a watch on each wrist?! Prepare for lots of ‘My time or your time?’ conversations.
Ha ha ha. Yep. All the locals say they never get used to it. Hopefully we do eventually adjust.
I hate daylight savings. Babies/Pre-schooler don’t understand it.
At least you can celebrate New Years Eve Twice haaa.x
True! BUT I usually sleep through NYE. If I was younger I would have been kerazy excited about the idea!
We could solve the problem if QLD just jumped on board with daylight savings!! I absolutely love the ‘extra’ daylight hours, it seems like such a waste that we don’t get to utilise them! There is definitely some confusion living on the Gold Coast/Tweed this time of year!!
Yes. I wish they would. Would make life easier for everyone. 😛
That would be a nightmare to deal with being on the border. We are in Victoria and love daylight savings. Luckily have never had problems with kids sleeping or waking which is probably half the battle! Really they should deal with the QLD/NSW situation.
I don’t cope with daylight saving at the best of times. I’m definitely in the ‘hate daylight savings’ camp. I don’t know how we’d cope with having to work around someone needing to dip out of the timezone daily though. Good luck.
Grrrr … and most people I need to talk to and email for business are on NSW and VIC time. Not happy Jan.
we have to deal with time difference all the time in WA. Daylight savings means NSW & vic is 3 hr ahead,qld is 2 hrs ahead, SA is 21/2 hrs ahead. Always have to think what time is it when making a phone call.
Hi Chantelle, I grew up in Banora Point and we had the same problem! Dad worked across the border in QLD and I went to school in QLD but lived in NSW! We did the ‘my time’ clock thing just like your other reader. It takes a while to get used to! The good thing when I was a kid was that we got the tv stations from both states. So if you missed a show at 7pm, you could watch it again an hour later! Maybe not so exciting what with IQ and recording shows now but back then it was a treat! xx
I live in Korea, that puts me 13 hours ahead of my mom and pop. That’s easy because in my head I can say it’s 8:39pm here that means it’s 8:39+1 AM there. That is, it’s simple until daylight savings hits. South Korea does not recognize daylight savings and so I get lucky! I don’t have to change my clock! But all of a sudden I’m messaging my mom at 8PM and wondering why she isn’t online at 7am as usual. Oh yeah, it is now 6am. I escaped day light savings but I just can’t seem to escape the confusion anyways! I’m liking your two clock idea – one for east coast USA and one for Korea. Happy loose an hour of sleep day!
Frustrating for sure. I used to have a lot more calls etc to make over the border than I do now and managed it with a similar strategy. Two clocks! Now I use the iPhone and hope like heck people will understand if I stuff it up. Good luck!!
I can’t imagine life on the border with daylight savings!
I was however, counting DOWN to daylight savings as I thought it might just buy an hour’s more sleep.
Alas, my son wakes even earlier now.
I’m at peace with the fact that I’m just the Mother of the child who doesn’t sleep, & I will forever grit my teeth when friends tell me how their children slept through the night at 3 months.
Bastards 😉 x
Oh, that must be frustrating. However, for people like me, I love it! Longer nights, darker mornings, and we all slept in til 6.20 am. A miracle!
I know how you feel. Being from Melbourne I love Daylight Savings but I am in Tweed Heads for a couple of days and travelling to Coolangatta a bit and I am confused already.
Oh no! Living in one time zone and working in another! How confusing!
For some reason I thought you lived in far north qld… no idea why but its interesting to know you live in nsw!! lol
Ha. We’re exactly the same. Luckily I work in NSW so not so difficult. The trickiest thing is when I am taking a flight. I’m on NSW time, the plane leaves on Qld time but I arrive on NSW time. I literally need pen and paper to work out what time to leave for the airport.
I live in the US and hate daylight savings time but I can’t imagine dealing with all you will have to. Yikes. I definitely can’t complain any more. Good luck!
HATE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS…battled to get kids to bed before 9pm last night now struggling to get them up and ready for school. Much prefer being up early in the morning and ready for the day then kids going to bed easily as soon as it is dark ay 7.30pm!!!! Grrrrrrr!!!!! I am sure if the government took a poll they would find a lot more people against than they realise.
we used to Live in NSW when we were younger (both hubby and I grew up there) yet never had to worry about living near the boarder – how does your hubby remember what time to get to work?
I worked on a cruise ship in the Baltic once where we had 6 time changes on a 12 day cruise – 3 on the way there, 3 on the way back. It was an absolute NIGHTMARE. Myself, & quite a lot of crew were consistently 2 hours early/late for work. The only way to know the correct time was the broadcasting channel on your TV, it meant a lot of time dashing to find the closest TV to tell you the time…..!
Time changes are bitches. I never managed to get used to it, & that was for 3 years….. Good Luck 🙂
I’m wondering what happens with your mobile phone Chantelle? I imagine the time displayed would depend on what state the signal tower is in (& would confusingly change as you changed location)??
I had NSW friends at my Victorian school who wore two watches during the two week transition between the different start dates for DLS. Very confusing catching a bus in one state to be at school in another while crossing time zones!
Good luck, hope you find a good strategy to cope 🙂 Jac
I love daylight savings and the ‘extra’ hours of summery sunshine – it’s heavenly to have ‘finished’ the day and still have time to sit outdoors and watch the sun set. Maybe the answer is a federal daylight savings system???
I can’t advise personally Chantelle as I live in Qld’s central west. But maybe the millions of people who live close to borders/time zones in the US would have some tips – continental US has 4 different time zones and 9 all up when you include Alaska, Hawaii and all their islands. The same must happen in Europe. Not sure why Australians find this such a hard concept!
I am very anti Daylight Saving for Queensland. Have been in Victoria and Tassie in summer, where it works brilliantly but they can actually do enjoyable things in the extra hour of sunlight they get at the end of the day, and have long twilights as well. My temps at 4pm EST knock-off time are often still in the 40s – not much chance of me frolicking in the sun in those conditions. Nor do I like cooking evening meals with sweat dripping down my nose and into the food or the sun blazing in my eyes while I’m doing it. And I find many Queenslanders do what Mediterranean countries do in the hotter months – get up early, have a siesta, work late. In other words, manage daylight to suit our conditions. Unfortunately other people think there has to be one rule for all.