Daylight saving is on in NSW, VIC, SA, TAS and the ACT until Sunday 4 April 2027

Daylight saving in every state and territory

Clocks go forward at 2am standard time and back at 3am daylight time, on the same Sundays in all five places that observe it. The dates are read from the time zone database your phone and computer use. They match each state's law — and, for Victoria and the ACT, whose proclamation and declaration could not be located, the government's published schedule.

The law in each state and territory

• NSW — Standard Time Act 1987 (NSW), sections 2A and 7. From 2am on the first Sunday in October to 2am standard time (3am daylight time) on the first Sunday in April, one hour ahead. Published schedule: NSW Government.
• VIC — Summer Time Act 1972 (Vic), section 3. One hour ahead during a period the Governor in Council fixes by proclamation. The Act leaves the dates to a proclamation, which could not be located online. The dates here rest on Business Victoria's published schedule and the time zone database phones and computers use, which agree with each other and with the other four states. Published schedule: Business Victoria.
• QLD — Standard Time Act 1894 (Qld), section 3. Standard time is 10 hours ahead of UTC, all year. The Act has no summer time provision.
• WA — Daylight Saving Act 2006 (WA), sections 4 to 6. Section 4 ran a trial over three separate summers, between 3 December 2006 and 29 March 2009. Section 6, which would have made daylight saving permanent once a referendum returned more yes votes than no, has never commenced. So Western Australia keeps AWST, UTC+8, all year.
• SA — Daylight Saving Act 1971 (SA) and Daylight Saving Regulations 2024, Act sections 2 and 3; Regulations regulation 4. From 2am South Australian standard time on the first Sunday in October to 3am South Australian summer time on the first Sunday in April, one hour ahead. The Act's own fallback — the last Sunday in October to the first Sunday in March — applies only when no period is prescribed; the 2024 Regulations prescribe one.
• TAS — Daylight Saving Act 2007 (Tas) and Daylight Saving Regulations 2017, Act section 4; Regulations regulation 3. From 2am standard time on the first Sunday in October to 3am (2am standard time) on the first Sunday in April, one hour ahead.
• ACT — Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 (ACT), sections 5 and 6. One hour ahead during a summer time period the Minister declares. The Minister's current declaration could not be located. The ACT Government publishes the period as the same as New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, and the time zone database phones and computers use agrees. Published schedule: ACT Government.
• NT — Standard Time Act 2005 (NT), section 4. Standard time is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC, all year. The Act has no summer time provision.

Two places that keep their own clock

• Broken Hill (Standard Time Act 1987 (NSW), sections 4 and 8): In New South Wales but on South Australian time: standard time is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC, and summer time one hour ahead of that, so the town keeps Adelaide's clock all year.
• Lord Howe Island (Standard Time Act 1987 (NSW), sections 5 and 9): Summer time is only 30 minutes ahead of its standard time, so in summer the island is level with Sydney and in winter half an hour ahead.

For the gap between any two places on a given date, the time zones page works it out, including AEST to Perth.

Where this comes from

Each law above was read on Sunday 4 October 2026. The dates come from the time zone database built into phones and computers (the IANA database), which agrees with all of them. Two documents could not be found — Victoria's proclamation and the ACT's declaration — so the page says so instead of citing them.