Showing posts with label Daylight Saving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daylight Saving. Show all posts

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Fall Backwards

Don't forget to turn your clocks back one hour - Daylight Saving ends for this year in Victoria and Tasmania at 2 am Sunday morning...

...it was first instituted in Australia here in Tasmania, back in 1967, as a measure to save power during a drought that meant our State's hydroelectric power supply capacities were lessened, and needed hoarding; this year, it has been extended for a week, all for the vulgar reason that it suited the Melbourne Grand Prix to be held during Daylight Saving!  O tempora, O mores.