IT’S that time of year again.
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Clocks will need to be moved forward one hour for Daylight Saving Time.
The change will occur at 2am on Sunday, October 2 and will end on April 2 2017.
Now that spring has commenced, everyone in NSW, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia will need to remember to put their clocks forward before they go to bed on Saturday night.
Daylight Saving was introduced across Australia in 1917 as a wartime fuel saving measure, but was abandoned in the same year due to public opposition.
It was re-introduced briefly from 1942 but was again stopped in 1944. There was no Daylight Saving Time in Australia after the Second World War until Tasmania introduced it in 1967–68. NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT adopted Daylight Saving Time in 1971.
