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Does daylight saving time count as a meteorological phenomenon? Here on the border of New South Wales and Queensland in Australia, we are about to enter the silly season, where NSW has daylight saving for the next 6 months, and Queensland doesn't.
This is rather a densely populated area of Australia, and the state border runs right through a city, and an airport. People on one side of the road are an hour ahead of those just 30 feet away on the other side.
Tens of thousands of people cross the border every day to work in the other state. My man is in the other state, and in a different time zone. We now have to talk about 'your time' and 'my time' for the next few months.
If your city is divided by a time zone, going to work, making appointments, catching transport, etc, is schizophrenic.
Each year a big public moan goes up from the frustrated citizens. Many solutions have been mooted - having the lower half of Queensland, which is not on DLST, being on the same time as NSW. Today's suggestion, from the Premier of QLD, was to move the border south to a less populated area of NSW, and redrawing the border to take in the southern part of the city of Tweed. Not well received! The people from NSW don't want to be classed as 'banana benders'.
So, it's an impasse again. Welcome to the silly season in Australia.
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