Daylight Savings Delay
2 years, 3 months agoThose of you not in Australia may not be aware of this little tidbit of information: Australia has delayed the standard hour shift for daylight savings in order to accommodate the Commonwealth games.
It took me and a friend about five minutes to come up with a whole heap of scenarios where confusion and problems would arise from this. Why did this appear to be a good idea? There must be a sea of critical business logic that relies on predictable time changes.
The politics of this decision seem to be based on the discourse of the Commonwealth games as an important construction of nationalism for Australians;
Swinburne University’s senior lecturer in media, John Schwartz, said local coverage of the Commonwealth Games had been ridiculously nationalistic. International athletes were marginalised and those stepping up to collect their medals are just cut off. (Junkforcode)
This is something I find difficult to endure, along with the pervasiveness and power of military legend of the ANZACS. Colonial Australia is a very young nation, and seems to feel the need to concretely strengthen patriotism and nationalism of her people.