Daylight saving may be done and dusted for another six months, but Australia is still no better off when it comes to our absolutely cooked time zones.
Looking forward to Australia returning to 3 time zones instead of 5. Surely there’s something we can do to make things a bit more sensible all year round.
Don't know what I'm talking about? Well, let's dig into the facts.
In the video, Bayley breaks down exactly what time the various Aussie states sit at in relation to one another. "I get it, Australia's a big country," he says, "so we're gonna need a bunch of time zones, and the math looks like this."
But things get a little more complicated when daylight saving hours take effect, with Bayley pointing out: "This was all fine before DLS, because Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia don't do it, so the map looks like this."
"But hang on, it gets better, because a little section in New South Wales, called Broken Hill, decided they wanted to be a part of South Australia's time zone, so their time zone actually extends a little over into that state," says Bayley.
"Only it gets even better, because a part of the Nullarbor, right between the border of Western Australia and South Australia, decided to invent its own time zones in 45-minute intervals. It's not official; they just decided to do it, and so we have to follow it."
Bayley hilariously sums all this up by pointing out: "You get to this awkward situation during daylight saving where it can be 6 p.m. in Western Australia, 6:45 p.m. in the sliver of Nullarbor, 7 p.m. in the Northern Territory, 8 p.m. in Queensland, 8:30 p.m. in South Australia — even though it's farther west than Queensland — and then 9 p.m. in the rest of the country. Except for Broken Hill, of course…WHY!?"
In the comments, fellow Australians aired their own grievances over the time zones, as well as a few more confusing facts that were left out:
