Daylight savings is an issue that affects us all. Twice a year we must change our clocks, forward on the last Sunday of September and backwards on the first Sunday of April. From 1927 daylight savings has affected New Zealanders, giving many people unnecessary stress. Sleeping habits are already poor mainly due to stimulation from cellular devices (Phones, Laptops). Taking away daylight savings in New Zealand for good would help improve people's sleeping habits.
Studies have been coming out over recent years highlighting negative health effects from unstable sleeping patterns caused by Daylight savings. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-health.html https://www.businessinsider.com/daylight-savings-time-bad-health-effects-sleep-2016-3/?r=AU&IR=T
Abolishing Daylight Savings will not only reduce all these negative health effects, but it will also ironically let us keep MORE time in our day. Removing daylight savings from our lives also makes it easier for New Zealand's trading partners to trade and communicate with New Zealand businesses.
Most countries in Asia, South American and Africa do not observe daylight savings. The countries that do are in the minority, these countries are the USA, Canada, Greenland, Iran, Southern Brasil, parts of Australia, the European countries and New Zealand. With the European Union on the brink of removing daylight savings altogether in Europe, now is the perfect time to reconsider: Is daylight savings really needed in New Zealand.
If you want daylight savings gone from New Zealand please sign this petition, and please contact your local mp. https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/members-of-parliament/
Updates
July 3, 2025
The feedback I have received regarding our sleep patterns confirms that this shift in time is a burden many of us feel deeply. It is clear that the frustration with these biannual adjustments is shared across the country.
July 3, 2025
Seeing this conversation grow confirms how many of us feel the toll of these twice-yearly time changes. It is encouraging to watch so many people commit to a rhythm that prioritizes our collective well-being over outdated tradition.
35 Comments
This needs to be available for the public to see. Daylight savings is not good for your internal clock it's bad for farmers shift workers and creates less productivity at work in general with people constantly adjusting. It doesn't bring more daylight hours it just means people on the benefit stay in bed longer and drink later in the day
Keep standard NZ time all year round. In summer days are longer naturally and farmers and families with children much prefer waking up to daylight than getting up in the dark.
As a person who manages an immune condition, I have seen a pattern over the years of an increase in symptoms and illness at each daylight change in myself and those around me. It is a stress our health doesn't need and it isn't required. By the way, you can't save daylight after the equinox
Very disruptive to inner time clock especially on children. In the South Island it’s still light at11pm in the lower south. Not good enough
It is not good for us south island people's. Our daylight was just fine before daylight saving now it's cold and dark in the morning
I want Daylight saving stopped as it upsets my sleep and mental health
For the daylight savings time vote for in new zealand .
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Daylight savings is an issue that affects us all. Twice a year we must change our clocks, forward on the last Sunday of September and backwards on the first Sunday of April. From 1927 daylight savings has affected New Zealanders, giving many people unnecessary stress. Sleeping habits are already poor mainly due to stimulation from cellular devices (Phones, Laptops). Taking away daylight savings in New Zealand for good would help improve people's sleeping habits.
Studies have been coming out over recent years highlighting negative health effects from unstable sleeping patterns caused by Daylight savings. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-health.html https://www.businessinsider.com/daylight-savings-time-bad-health-effects-sleep-2016-3/?r=AU&IR=T
Abolishing Daylight Savings will not only reduce all these negative health effects, but it will also ironically let us keep MORE time in our day. Removing daylight savings from our lives also makes it easier for New Zealand's trading partners to trade and communicate with New Zealand businesses.
Most countries in Asia, South American and Africa do not observe daylight savings. The countries that do are in the minority, these countries are the USA, Canada, Greenland, Iran, Southern Brasil, parts of Australia, the European countries and New Zealand. With the European Union on the brink of removing daylight savings altogether in Europe, now is the perfect time to reconsider: Is daylight savings really needed in New Zealand.
If you want daylight savings gone from New Zealand please sign this petition, and please contact your local mp. https://www.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-electorates/members-of-parliament/
Updates
July 3, 2025
The feedback I have received regarding our sleep patterns confirms that this shift in time is a burden many of us feel deeply. It is clear that the frustration with these biannual adjustments is shared across the country.
July 3, 2025
Seeing this conversation grow confirms how many of us feel the toll of these twice-yearly time changes. It is encouraging to watch so many people commit to a rhythm that prioritizes our collective well-being over outdated tradition.
35 Comments
No time change!! Body and baby couldn’t clock it!! Back to nature, no artificial change. Pointless
This needs to be available for the public to see. Daylight savings is not good for your internal clock it's bad for farmers shift workers and creates less productivity at work in general with people constantly adjusting. It doesn't bring more daylight hours it just means people on the benefit stay in bed longer and drink later in the day
Keep standard NZ time all year round. In summer days are longer naturally and farmers and families with children much prefer waking up to daylight than getting up in the dark.
As a person who manages an immune condition, I have seen a pattern over the years of an increase in symptoms and illness at each daylight change in myself and those around me. It is a stress our health doesn't need and it isn't required. By the way, you can't save daylight after the equinox
Very disruptive to inner time clock especially on children. In the South Island it’s still light at11pm in the lower south. Not good enough
It is not good for us south island people's. Our daylight was just fine before daylight saving now it's cold and dark in the morning
I want Daylight saving stopped as it upsets my sleep and mental health
For the daylight savings time vote for in new zealand .
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No time change!! Body and baby couldn’t clock it!! Back to nature, no artificial change. Pointless