Did you get the feeling of waking up in the dark in the closing days of daylight saving? Did you think that that did not happen at the beginnig of the daylight-saving period?
It is true. Southern Australia’s daylight daving period is hopelessly out of whack. You would expect that, because it is a creature of political compromise. The result is that daylight saving does not begin soon enough and ends a tad late.
There are a few figures to prove the point, but bear with me.
First, what would happen in a rational world? You would expect that daylight saving would begin and end on days with a roughly equal lengths of daylight. For example you might expect it to begin when daylight got to 12 hours and end when it shrank to 12 hours.
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