If it seems like the days are getting shorter and the nights longer it's because they are. I like to plan my weekends in advance and this weekend is no exception. On the agenda - a sleep in.
Daylight Savings time ends this Sunday - 3am becomes 2am. The Department of Internal Affairs has an short history of how Daylight Savings time was implemented in New Zealand on their website. Daylight Savings has been around for as long as I can remember so it was a surprise to read that it took 20 years for the first bill to be adopted way back in 1927. Another surprise was finding out that from the end of the 1940s to the beginning of the 1970s it didn't exist. The Te Ara article on Timekeeping in New Zealand has a link to a photo showing 'Ararua time'. This is a small commmunity in Northland who objected to the change in time and so decided to ignore it. If only alarm clocks could be ignored so easily!
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