DAYLIGHT ROBBERY?
Great news: you’re about to get some stolen property back. At the weekend, that precious hour the government pinched from you in spring will finally be returned as the nation’s clocks move from daylight saving back to standard time — a ritual that, for the past 15 years, has happened at 3am on the first Sunday of every April.
The bad news, of course, is the government is a hopeless recidivist; it will be back in September to steal the hour from you all over again.
The April shift back is undoubtedly the easier bit of New Zealand’s biannual transition in and out of daylight saving time (DST). Getting the hour back will mean, if only for that first Sunday, an extra hour in
