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Originally Posted by flappist
That is because you live in Brisbane.
The world is round and the coast of QLD slopes west.
The closer you get to the equator the less effect the seasons have as the thickness of the atmosphere (as in angle and therefore distance travelled) changes very little.
There is little, if any, twilight north of a couple of hundred km south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Due to the shape of Australia (look on a globe not a flat map as the projecton model distortion increases the further you are from the equator e.g. Greenland is only 400km wide but looks bigger than Australia) sunrise and sunset are at very different times to the southern areas.
The further north you go the later the sunrise/sunset. Mt Isa is only about 100km east of Adelaide.
So while the city office dwellers and southerners in general love the idea of cool afternoons and long twilights sipping chardonay and pontificating on life, the universe and everything up in the north it is just stinking hot for what appears to be even longer.
Conversley moving the time zones in winter would be better for the northeners as it is cooler and less monsoonal then.
To settle the arguement, why don't we just move the time zone forward 1 hr permanently?
You can have your twilights in summer while we swelter in the stinking heat and monsoons and we can have cool evenings in winter while you freeze your bums off in the dark.........
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I was in McKay a few years ago over summer, and for the life of me I could not understand why you lay around at 5.00 in the morning with the temp high and the humidity high, why not get out of bed and go to work early and knock off that 1 hour earlier, you are proving you don't get it.