So we are now two weeks in from when the eastern and southern states adopted Daylight Saving for another year, and the frustrations, delays and inefficiencies have also made their way back into the lives of the majority of South East Queenslanders.

South East Queensland businesses that have regular dealings with clients and counterparts in other states, particularly New South Wales and Victoria, are greatly affected.  A number of these businesses are forced to operate on extended times, in order to ensure customer services continue to be provided locally, along with maintaining client expectations and business relationships throughout the whole Australian east coast.  Business travellers are inconvenienced by the necessity to get up at 3am, to ensure that they make the ‘red-eye’ flight and are on time for their 9am meeting in Sydney or Melbourne; or if not, they are forced to fly down the night before, incurring more expense.  Stock order deadlines are brought forward an hour when ordering from Sydney or Melbourne, to ensure warehouse requirements are maintain