This shit really has to stop.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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As someone who makes a living from people crashing their cars; daylight savings gives a significant boost in my commissions every 6 months or so.
As someone who has to share the road with people who are not paying 100% attention in the wee hours of the morning, Daylight Savings must be cancelled.
I also fix the cars that get smashed up in the weeks after the switch. So it benefits me financially. Still think it really needs to end. The week after the switch is also the week with the highest incidents of heart attacks. It really is unhealthy.
Highest rate of suicides as well.
My experience, talking online, has been that Europeans and North Americans largely agree with you, getting rid of DST would be a sensible thing to do.
Unfortunately in Australia, I see that viewpoint a lot less often. My only guess about the reason: it's become a semi-politicised issue here. The states of Queensland and Western Australia don't use it, while the more populous states of New South Wales and Victoria do use it. And there's a strong cultural sense in those states of "looking down" on Qld & WA; if they do something this way, it must be the wrong way to do it. The joke is, "what's the time difference between Sydney and Brisbane? About 1 hour and 30 years." Whereas in Europe it's universal, and in America it's almost universal on the mainland, apart from a fraction of one state. So there isn't as much of that comparison.
Which is all really frustrating, because all the data is so clear that it's a bad thing. Car crashes, heart attacks, suicides, all go up because of it.
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Absolutely not.
The hour will not be lost completely, it is being given as a no-interest loan to the Gods of Time, to be returned to us on 5th April next year.
Alternatively, we are just repaying the Gods of Time for the additional hour we received in April this year. The Gods practise usury, hence we do not need to pay any interest beyond mild grogginess.
It's one of those chicken and egg questions, isn't it?
I consider the problems inherent in a sudden time change to be the price we pay for attempting to impose our own flawed mechanistic concept of time onto the natural flow of the seasons.
Don't get me started about leap years! 👿
Abolishing this would be such common sense, but there's no political appetite for it because basically nobody cares. I guess not until one of the many people who die as a result of this has a famous or just vindictive loved one.
Daylight saving, not savings.
But it happens every year, so obviously it needs to be a plural. It's like the money in my bank account being called savings, it's only saving if talking about something I am doing in present tense. So at 2am on Sunday I will be daylight saving, and contributing an hour to my Daylight Savings Time fund.
It’s like the money in my bank account being called savings
I think that's how most people think of it, so that's why so many people get the name wrong.
But actually, it's more like daylight-saving time. It's (named as if it's) the time for saving daylight.
Perhaps it's time to update the terminology. We all know we are not really saving anything and we're just messing with the clocks. Maybe we could have the Spring BBQ Extending Adjustment and the Autumn Sleep-in Morning instead, to try to get people to focus on the posititve aspects, with the time periods just being referred to as Summer Time and Winter Time.
I like to call it "government-encouraged death time", considering its main impact is an increase in traffic crashes, heart attacks, and suicides.
Alongside some excellent points made by others here, it also adds to the electricity cost of air conditioning because more people are at home during the hot evening daylight hours, and means we aren't spending as much time sleeping during the coolest hours.