Fresh push to abandon daylight savings amid claims it impacts climate change
A Labor leader has called for the Government to consider shortening daylight saving to combat - after one of her constituents complained it was too hot for a walk in the park at 8pm. NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay sent a letter to Energy Minister Matt Kean last month explaining her constituent believes daylight saving in NSW made last summer too hot to walk around Hammond Park in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield after dark. The person claimed the temperature remained at 40C at 8pm - when it's still light in NSW - while walking the park. Daylight savings in NSW begins on Sunday, 6 October, when clocks went forward one hour, and runs until April 5th at 3am. '[The person] has requested the duration of the daylight saving period in NSW be shortened as it has a significant impact on climate change,' Ms McKay wrote, according to . 'I await your consideration and response on this matter.' A spokesperson for the Strathfield MP told the publication Ms McKay doesn't think daylight savings should be changed. 'Strathfield has a diverse community with a wide variety of views. It is the job of the local member to represent those views to government without judgment.' Mr Kean refused to comment. Studies have shown no solid connection between daylight saving and climate change. A study in The Review of Economics and Statistics in 2011 increased the cost of emissions, but another published in Energy Police journal in the same year said energy was saved in some nations. Daylight saving has been a hotly debated issue across the country for many years. It was implemented in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia by 1972. Western Australia has voted against daylight saving in four referendums. Queensland have also repeatedly rejected the notion in its own referendums.