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It's absolutely stupid here in Australia - I can't believe we still have it. It makes the winters in Melbourne so depressing when it gets dark as soon as you finish work - it feels like you have no time / life in the evenings during the week.

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On the other hand, I do not want to wake up three whole hours before sunrise for work each day. This isn’t just a preference, it’s a biological predisposition which is impossible to ignore.

I’m a night owl. My best hours are after sundown. The business world isn’t built for that, and so I have to drag myself out of bed every morning at what to me is an ungodly hour. AEDT in the Summer is already bad enough, but the idea of doing AEDT over Winter and having to wake up even earlier fills me with a sort of abject despair.

But that's standard time, not DST. From what you say, what you want is permanent DST.

DT means daylight time in Australia (AEST = winter, AEDT = summer). So I’d want permanent AEDT.

Imho, it doesn't matter what the change is.. long as it is consistent.

So does the article, which is not named accurately. It says "Daylight saving time can seriously affect your health" and then goes on to explain how it's actually non-daylight savings time that affects your health.

I know right?

Get used to one set of hours, it changes. I personally find going into summer the worst, but I’d settle for one set of consistent hours instead of the arbitrarily-changing-roller-coaster we have now.

Still better than the UK where it gets dark hours before you finish work

In Sweden it's dark when you go to work and dark when you go home. There are only a few hours of sun light in the winter.

Oh man, Novembers are the worst in Sweden. I lived in Malmö for about 10 years, and moved to London recently. London is heaven in terms of sunlight in comparison to Malmö and that says a lot.

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