About StudyAdelaide Contact. Marketing Materials Member Resources. Find a Course. It's almost Daylight Saving Time! View all News. Dr Harrington suggests adjusting your body by waking and going to bed earlier on Saturday to make up for the lost time overnight and to make bedrooms as bright as possible to help wake up.
Besides being able to make the most of daylight, expert Dr David Prerau believes daylight saving can promote physical health and reduce street crime. Some medical experts called for daylight saving to be scrapped this year due to concerns that turning clocks forward could have negative health impacts.
Melbourne professor Paul Zimmet has raised concerns that health risks associated with losing an hour of sleep on the changeover day could be made worse by the coronavirus pandemic.
Here's what time the clocks go forward. TV star Bert Newton is honoured with a state funeral in Melbourne. Follow our live coverage for the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic. Days in Australia are getting longer and warmer as summer approaches, and the time has come for parts of the country to spring forward and take advantage of daylight saving time. Sunday will be an hour shorter in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory but, in exchange, residents there will get later sunsets and more daylight in the afternoons throughout summer.
At that point, clocks will jump forward an hour to am. So, while you'll lose an hour at night, the result will be daylight lingers in the evening for an extra hour during the warmer months. If you have a phone — or pretty much any gadget that connects to the internet — you won't need to worry about the change, it'll happen automatically. However, remember to check your microwave or oven, plus any analogue or wall clocks that may need manual adjustment.
Daylight saving will remain in place until after summer, when the affected states and territory will jump back to standard time. At that point, clocks will go backwards by one hour and you'll get a Sunday sleep-in , also bringing forward darkness for the rest of the year.
During the summer months, daylight hours get longer and, in Australia, this effect is more pronounced the further south you go. Daylight saving was first introduced in some parts of the world during World War I to save fuel. The idea was that, with more daylight at the back end of the day, people would use less electricity.
However, these days, research has found that any impact on energy consumption is negligible.
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