It's cos a significant majority of the population is on the east coast. 50% in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne alone, before you add the rest of those states. So for economic reasons, it's convenient for the central states to be a bit closer in time to the eastern states.
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"Mate, what's the time?"
"Fuck off, come back with a warrant."
You could travel in a straight line and have your clock jump forward, then backward, then forward again.
Wait you have a time zone that's a half hour step? That's so unfortunate...
What if we told you about UTC +8:45.
And that cocklebiddy is in it.
It's cos a significant majority of the population is on the east coast. 50% in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne alone, before you add the rest of those states. So for economic reasons, it's convenient for the central states to be a bit closer in time to the eastern states.
Don't forget eucla time for even more confusion
That is unbelievably cursed
12/10 Oofs
Totally worth it
So driving from Sydney to Brisbane in the summer, you need to turn the clock back one hour and the calendar back twenty years?
that hasn't been true for 20 years 🌞 SEQ I'd argue is just as modern as Sydney (SEQ for people not from around here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_East_Queensland)
Now if we could somehow give FNQ their own time zone then yes I would agree 😅
Yeah, can confirm, FNQ needs their own time zone. Why even stop there? Just split it off to its own continent.