Tick, tock... daylight saving time comes to end

Daylight saving ends tomorrow.
Daylight saving ends tomorrow.
Forward, back, light, dark? Daylight saving appears to continue to perplex Otago residents.

Daylight saving ends at 3am tomorrow when clocks go back one hour.

After a petition calling for an extension to daylight saving was presented to the Labour government in 2007, then internal affairs minister Rick Barker announced on April 30 that year that daylight saving would be extended for another three weeks, to 27 weeks.

From 1990, New Zealand had experienced 24 weeks of daylight saving, in addition to the half-hour of standard daylight saving since 1941.

Most people approached by the Otago Daily Times were confused whether they were meant to turn their clocks forward or back at the end of daylight saving. Daylight saving begins again on September 26.

 

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