Daylight savings time ends this Sunday, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and South Australia.
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Don’t forget to wind your clocks back an hour on Sunday at 3am (or more realistically when you wake up the next morning).
Most smartphones will update the time automatically as long as you are using the automatically set network time rather than a manual setting.
Daylight saving time began in NSW at 2am on Sunday, October 1.
History of daylight savings
Daylight saving operated nationally during World War I from January 1 in 1917 to 25 March in 1917 and during World War II for three summers, beginning on January 1 1942.
Daylight saving was introduced again in New South Wales on October 31 in 1971 after the Standard Time Act 1971 was passed by the New South Wales Parliament.
A referendum held on May 1 in 1976 submitted a proposal that daylight saving be adopted on a permanent basis. The ballot paper stated:
Electors were then asked to answer 'yes' or 'no' to the question: Are you in favour of daylight saving? 1,882,770 electors were in favour; 868,900 were against and 35,507 votes were informal.
