I want daylight savings time to end. Who do I whinge to?

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Zozano@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨australianpolitics@aussie.zone⁩

I fucking hate DST. It’s like dog diarrhoea splashed over a fat girls tiddies.

I know a lot of people hate it, surely it’s time for this moronic practice to end.

So who do I email about this? Is it my MP?

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DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It did end, like a week ago. You’re welcome.

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- Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You did it! Legend!
  
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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It would be your state Member of Parliament. Make sure not to bother with your federal member, because they can’t do anything about it.

It might be handy to have some evidence to support your personal preferences. Here are a few:

www.cell.com/…/S0960-9822(19)31678-1

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205184/

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29461606/

66.160.145.48/…/hb0019_attachment_0003.pdf

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6692659/

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2259373/

I’m particularly a fan of the penultimate one linked there, which states:

In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.

As a side note, it’s “daylight saving time”, not “savings”. The name is supposed to refer to the idea that DST somehow “saves daylight” (so it’s daylight-saving). It’s not a savings account.
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- Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Jesus Christ.
  
  Send me your postcode. I’ll go door-to-door to find out who I need to praise for such a comprehensive answer.
  
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  - Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Haha no personal thanks needed. Just go out there and be a force for good in the world! (In this case: convincing people & politicians to abandon this deadly practice.)
    
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brisk@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
aussie.zone/post/8630436 Unfortunately Australians largely disagree somehow

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- princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I saw that article. I could believe that a majority support it, but something feels hinky with their polling to come up with that 80% figure. It just doesn’t line up with my anecdotal experiences at all. Most people I’ve talked to about this (Melbourne) are either ambivalent or against DST. Almost all of the people working in mental health I’ve met are against it due to the increase in suicides. Same with most of the Queensland expats I’ve met, though that might be related to actually experiencing living it for the first time. Obviously all of this is anecdotal, but it just does not seem to compute with that article’s figures of overwhelming support. I should be clear that support for permanent DST was split amongst the people I’ve talked too, but the adjustments have been pretty much universally hated.
  
  For an example same-sex marriage has overwhelming support in Australia these days, 75% as of last year. And I have met way, way more people against DST than against same-sex marriage.
  
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  - Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Almost all of the people working in mental health I’ve met are against it due to the increase in suicides
    
    Suicides, heart problems, traffic crashes, there’s a whole host of scientific literature pointing to the problems with daylight saving time. This is not anecdotal, it’s extremely well-attested published research.
    
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- Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t take pre-prints as evidence.
  
  Anecdotally, everyone I know hates it.
  
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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Move to Queensland?

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hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well, here in Tasmania and I hate it. I can understand Qld wanting to move , so they align with the Southern states but what a fuck.

I’d like to see the entire nation move to UTC+11 and just stay there for fucks sake.

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SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I genuinely don’t understand the anger. Heaps of people like it. Lot of people on here doubting that, but most of the people I know are either in favour of it or neutral. Other than updating the microwave clock, and once a year adjusting for maybe 2 days to new wake up time, what else is there? What is so bad?

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