The debate over Daylight Saving Time in New Zealand

I’ve never met a person who actually knows anything about Daylight Saving Time, just that at some point we lose an hour, and at another point of the year we gain one.

And no, it’s not Daylight Savings Time, either.

We first introduced it nearly a hundred years ago in 1927 – and the current times have been fixed since 2007.

In spring, we change our clocks forward 1 hour to New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT). In autumn, we change our clocks back 1 hour to New Zealand Standard Time (NZST).

Today on The Front Page, Take Back the Clocks spokesperson Connor Malloy joins us to discuss where Daylight Saving Time came from, and how we might be able to get rid of it.

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