slim6y
Almost Legendary
My opinion : I would rather sleep in the morning and go to bed later, then have to get up in the morning and go to bed earlier... That's what my vote is, no to daylight savings because I love my sleep!! Also, I stay up later some nights due to study.. And if I have to get up an hour earlier in the morning, then I do lose sleep!!! Simple. I love sleep. No daylight savings!
Just that first night - losing that 1 hour is enough... The first night clocks go forward at 2am to 3pm and magically the time fairies just take that hour away - you become instantly an hour older...
Time fairies come back in late March and give you back the hour....
I'm yet to see evidence of an advantage for DST that would suggest the requirement for SEQ to turn the clocks forward an hour.
Here's a list of countries that do NOT adopt DST in their zones (reasons unknown, but in some cases I'm not sure they even have clocks).
These countries or regions do not use daylight saving time (anymore):
* Algeria
* Angola
* Benin
* Botswana
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cameroon
* Cape Verde
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Comoros
* Democratic Republic of Congo
* Djibouti
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Ethiopia
* Gabon
* Gambia
* Ghana
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Ivory Coast
* Kenya
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Mayotte
* Namibia
* Niger
* Republic of the Congo
* Rwanda
* Saint Helena
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* South Africa
* Sudan
* Swaziland
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Uganda
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe
* Colombia
* Guyana
* Peru
* Venezuela
* The following states of Brazil: Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia, Roraima, Sergipe, and Tocantins.
The People's Republic of China experimented with DST from 1986, but abandoned DST from 1992 onwards. The PRC now uses one time zone (UTC+8) for the whole country.
Iraq has not observed DST since 2008
Hong Kong used DST beginning in 1948, but abandoned it from 1980 onwards.
The Republic of India used Daylight Saving Time (DST) briefly during wartime. Currently, India does not observe DST.
The Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy is expected to propose that the Japanese government begin studying DST in an attempt to help combat global warming. The former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe made a significant effort to introduce daylight saving time, but was ultimately unsuccessful. However, it is not clear that DST would conserve energy in Japan. A 2007 simulation estimated that introducing DST to Japan would increase energy use in Osaka residences by 0.13%, with a 0.02% saving due to lighting more than outweighed by a 0.15% increase due to cooling costs; the simulation did not examine non-residential buildings.
Kazakhstan made a decision to stop observing DST in 2005, citing health complications as well as lowered productivity and a lack of economic benefits.
Kyrgyzstan voted to stop observing DST in 2005 and remain on UTC+6 as Standard Time (which used to be Kyrgyzstan Summer Time), thus still saving energy.
Malaysia used DST from January 1, 1933, but discontinued in December 31, 1981 to replace Malaysian Standard Time.
Pakistan cancelled DST.
* Afghanistan
* Bahrain
* Bhutan
* Brunei
* Cambodia
* China
* East Timor
* Georgia
* Hong Kong
* India
* Indonesia
* Iraq
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Macau
* Maldives
* Malaysia
* Mongolia
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* North Korea
* Oman
* Papua New Guinea
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* Taiwan
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Turkmenistan
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam
* Yemen
South Korea does not currently use DST - but may implement it this year.
Iceland, observing UTC all year round despite being at a longitude which would indicate UTC-1, the country may be thought of as being on continuous DST. Iceland's high latitude means that sunset and sunrise times change by many hours over the year, and the effect of changing the clock by one hour would, in comparison, be small.
Hawaii has never observed daylight saving time under the Uniform Time Act, having opted out of the Act's provisions in 1967
The New Zealandic dependencies of Cook Islands, Tokelau and Niue do not maintain DST.
All U.S. insular territories with civilian government in Oceania, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands lie in the tropics, and do not observe DST.
The interesting one is Japan that cited using more energy during DST than the preferred less!