Daylight saving change causes confusion?

[Robert Zweck]

I caught the tail end of a news item on the ABC tonight which seemed to say that Daylight Saving changeovers caused chaos in the Qantas computer network this morning.

Some states changed, others didn't.

The first few Qantas flights ex ADL this morning were seriously delayed.

Any thoughts?

[Bob C]

Gee Robert, I hope not.

The Eastern States and the airlines have had more than 30 years experience with Daylight Saving so you think they would get it right, especially when States changeover at different times. For example, in the summer of 2006/07W A commenced a trial of Daylight Savings from December 2006, several weeks after the eastern states changed over and it didn't give any problems then.

It finished in WA this morning and I think finishes next weekend in NSW but I don't know about Vic, Tas and SA and the ACT.

[D Chan]

This day light saving thing is just annoying. I wish they could just lock it in as the current time. (GMT +11).

Does it make sense for people living on the affected timezone states to have to put up with adjusting their clocks every 6 months?

[Simon Hoby]

Apparently some phones on the Telstra network had issues with this. If the user had set their phone to acquire it's time from the tower it was connected to, then the phone may get and incorrect time.

DST is running a week longer this year and all states are finishin at the same time, next Sunday morning at 0200hrs I believe.

One news site even called it a "...mini Y2K". Pfft!!! I worked on Y2K and this is nothing like it.


Simon.

[Mick F]

Move to Queensland, .

[Nigel C]

Why? I like my curtains better when they've faded.

[Craig Murray]

Don't move to Queensland, we enjoy not having that extra hour of sunshine every day.

Seriously, some of the excuses up here for not introducing it are pretty lame. Anything that assists in combating sunrise occuring at 0430 has got to be a good thing right?

[Grahame Hutchison]

Queenslanders never wanted daylight saving because they believed the sun shone out of JO BJELKE-PETERSEN backside, and he was not going to get up that early in the morning for anyone.

Don't you worry about that.

[Montague S]

I hear he used to get up early for Flo's pumpkin scones...

[Brenden S]

NT and QLD don't have Daylight Saving.
NSW,ACT,VIV,TAS,SA are extending for a extra week to be inline with New Zealand
WA ended there's yesterday and it was weird last night working. Pitch black at 7pm!
WA are ending there daylight saving 2 weeks earlier next year.