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I’m just going to have a little rant here…..about daylight savings.

I live in Queensland, Australia and we do not have daylight savings, we simply stay on our regular time while the other States change their clocks for the summer.

I just saw a tweet by @Ed_Dale about Queenslanders, fading curtains and confused cows, which is so old hat and what does it matter to someone from another State whether Queensland has daylight savings or not, they don’t live here so why should they care? 

The ones who come to live in Queensland from other States are the ones lobbying for us to have daylight savings, they knew when they came here that is wasn’t going to be, so if they want it badly enough, then go back to where they came from.

Maybe that would be a good thing because if they can’t work out a simple time difference to contact their original State then…..not very bright!!!

We should have a special sign at our border letting them know when they cross into Queensland to live they accept that we do not have daylight savings, we have voted on it already and they missed out so now is the time to turn back or forever hold their tongues on the subject.

There is always another so called argument put forward each year and that is doing business…….time differences etc. etc.   Hey!!! this is the communication age, we have phones (several varieties), faxes, the Internet, webinars, teleseminars, conference calling, we are in communication overload.

I’ve even heard people argue that they ‘need’ to communicate with companies and the time difference is stopping that, the companies they are talking about are international companies in other countries, oh dear! who is going to be the one to tell them that they are not in the same time zone…..not me!  I’ll leave that to someone with more patience than me.

If they can’t work one hour time difference, how on earth are they going to work out all the time zones across the globe.

btw someone can tell them that there are several websites that will work it out for them, these websites will even do the States in Australia for them.

So if you are living in Queensland and want daylight savings, then there are States offering that option and you are more than welcome to go there to live, we may not miss you though.