As summer fades into autumn, most Australian states and territories will set their clocks back an hour as daylight saving ...

Why not have the best of both times year-round? Let’s go on daylight-saving time year-round but advance our clocks by only a half-hour over standard time.

Support for ditching the twice-yearly clock change is strongest among the over-55s. While originally introduced to make better use of daylight hours, people now say it’s doing more harm than good.

As it stands, under EU law, the clocks in all member states change at the same time. In 2019, the European Parliament voted in favour of ending seasonal time changes, but EU institutions have not ...