Daylight Saving Time Is Over – Here’s What You Should Do

Australians in most states are set to get another hour of sleep when clocks go back an hour for the end to daylight saving at the start of April.

The change will bring sunrise and sunset earlier in the day.

Here is everything you need to know about daylight saving ending in Australia.

When does daylight saving finish?

Daylight saving will end on Sunday, April 7 at 3am.

It will return on Sunday, October 6 at 2am.

Do clocks go backwards or forwards?

Clocks are set to go backwards next Sunday, meaning the time will change from 3am to 2am for people living in the states and territories that take part.

The time change will give everyone in a state or territory with daylight saving an extra hour in their day.

In October the clocks will change forward to lose an hour.

Which states and territories are affected by daylight saving?

There will be no change in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia, meaning those residents will not have to change their clocks.

Those in Victoria, NSW, ACT, Tasmania and South Australia all follow daylight saving and will have to adjust to the new time.

While in the minority, major nations like China and India are among the many that also don’t observe it.

What will the time difference be between the states and territories?

With daylight saving nearing, the time differences within Australia get a little simpler as we lose two time zones, dropping from the five in place during the summer down to three.

From next Sunday, all of Queensland, NSW, the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania will be on Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Half an hour behind will be the Northern Territory and South Australia on Australian Central Standard Time – although, unusually, the NSW town of Broken Hill also uses ACST rather than AEDT.

A further hour and a half behind – so a full two hours behind the eastern states – is Western Australia on Australian Western Standard Time.