Australians in most states will get an extra hour’s sleep when clocks go back an hour at the end of daylight saving time in April.
The change will bring sunrise and sunset earlier in the day.
Here is everything you need to know about daylight saving time ending in Australia in 2024.
When does summer time end?
Daylight saving will end at 3am on Sunday 7 April. It will return at 2am on Sunday 6 October.
Do clocks move backwards or forwards?
Clocks will go back one hour on Sunday, from 3am to 2am, when Daylight Saving ends in the following states and territories. This means that on the first Sunday in April, everyone in a state or territory with daylight saving time will have an extra hour in their day.
Clocks will move forward to lose an hour in October.
Which states and territories will be affected by daylight saving?
There will be no change in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia, so people there will not need to change their clocks. People in Victoria, NSW, ACT, Tasmania and South Australia all follow Daylight Saving Time and will need to adjust to the new time. Although in the minority, large nations such as China and India are also among the many that don’t observe it.
What will be the time difference between states and territories?
With daylight saving time coming to an end, time differences within Australia will become a little simpler as we lose two time zones, going from five during the summer to three.
From 7 April, all of Queensland, NSW, the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania will be on Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Half an hour later, the Northern Territory and South Australia will be on Australian Central Standard Time – although, unusually, the NSW town of Broken Hill will also be on ACST rather than AEDT.
A further hour and a half behind – a full two hours behind the eastern states – is Western Australia on Australian Western Standard Time.
