Daylight Saving Time 2025 in Australia
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When do the clocks spring forward or fall back in Australia? Daylight Saving Time for 2025 and other years.

Remember the clocks go forward 1 hour at 2am on Sunday (Saturday night).

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.

Edit: Corrected my grammatical error, because https://aussie.zone/u/dan@upvote.au is right, even if I don’t want to admit it. It is Daylight Saving, not Savings.

  • danA
    2·
    5 days ago

    Daylight saving, not savings.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneOPM
      2·
      5 days ago

      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.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        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.

        • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneOPM
          1·
          5 days ago

          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.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
            2·
            5 days ago

            I like to call it “government-encouraged death time”, considering its main impact is an increase in traffic crashes, heart attacks, and suicides.