The extra hour

While we were sleeping, a miracle happened! At exactly 3 am on the 06/04/08, all the clocks in Adelaide stopped ticking for one ENTIRE hour! Hence, the clocks read 0300 even though it was supposed to be 0400! Cool right? So Adelaide is now only 1.5 hours ahead of Singapore:D

If you havent already know, I was just trying to explain the concept of daylight saving in a fun and exciting way. What really happens is, when we receive the news that the daylight saving has ended, we'll change our clocks manually. Yup it is as simple as that. How boring!

Daylight saving was introduced because in spring/summer, the sun rises and sets at different times as when it is autumn/winter. So what it does is that during spring, the time is set one hour forward of the actual and when autumn kicks in, it will be adjusted back. This is necessary because it will be weird to still see the sun at 8 o'clock at night.

So everyone in Adelaide has just earned an extra hour! ANd I know this doesnt make sense but somehow, it makes me feel closer to home. awwwww