Most Australians will lose an extra hour of evening sunlight from Sunday, as daylight saving time ends. The trade-off is an additional hour of sleep, with clocks going back by one hour at 3am.
Residents in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory will need to manually adjust analogue clocks. Smartphones and computers typically update automatically.
The change means the entire east coast is again on the same time zone. South Australia and the Northern Territory remain half an hour behind, while Western Australia is two hours behind.
Australia now has three active time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time, Australian Central Standard Time, and Australian Western Standard Time. Daylight saving has been a feature of Australian life for 50 years.
Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory do not observe daylight saving, though each has trialled it previously. Daylight saving will resume on the first Sunday of October, when clocks move forward one hour from 2am.
