Stop the clocks: the cows aren’t confused by daylight saving, but I am | Gabrielle Chan

The difference in support for daylight saving in rural areas versus the cities is night and day. And as a country dweller, I like getting up with the sun

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It is fair to say, before I moved to the country nearly 30 years ago, I had a lot of fun with rural arguments against daylight saving. The most infamous of them all was that of Flo Bjelke-Petersen, the former senator, wife of former Queensland premier Joh and maker of pumpkin scones. She argued that the curtains would fade and milking cows would get confused.

While no one argues on the grounds of cows and curtains any more, perennial reasons cited in the bush against daylight saving include getting up in the dark, putting kids on buses in the dark and daylight differences between the western and eastern reaches of the states.