As the days get cooler, Australians in most states and territories are preparing to turn back clocks for the end of daylight saving this week.<\/p>\n
Here’s what you need to know.<\/p>\n
What date does daylight saving end?<\/p>\n
Daylight saving will end on Sunday, April 5.<\/p>\n
What time does daylight saving end?<\/p>\n
When local time in the following states and territories reaches 3am clocks will be turned backward to 2am.<\/p>\n
This means people in affected states and territories will get an extra hour sleep.<\/p>\n
Where does daylight saving time end in Australia?<\/p>\n
Daylight saving time is used in:<\/p>\n
Australian Capital TerritoryNew South WalesSouth AustraliaTasmaniaVictoriaWhich states don’t use daylight saving time?QueenslandWestern AustraliaNorthern TerritoryWhy does daylight saving end on April 5?<\/p>\n
Daylight saving ends on the first Sunday of April every year.<\/p>\n
This year it happens to fall on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n
The legislation does not explicitly spell out why the change always happens on a Sunday.<\/p>\n
However, the assumption is that lining it up with a weekend is less disruptive for schools and businesses that operate on a Monday to Friday basis.<\/p>\n
When does daylight saving start back up again?<\/p>\n
This year daylight saving will begin again on Sunday, October 4.<\/p>\n
Is daylight saving time different in other countries?<\/p>\n
Yes.<\/p>\n
That is why if you search for “when does daylight saving end?” in a search engine you might be given a different date.<\/p>\n
In the US, daylight saving time starts on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November.<\/p>\n
And it is different again in the UK.<\/p>\n
Daylight saving time there kicks off on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the days get cooler, Australians in most states and territories are preparing to turn back clocks for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,53671,118951,44,81452,21506,16962],"class_list":["post-570670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-calendar","tag-daylight-savings","tag-news","tag-seasons","tag-states","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}