Yesterday Western Australia voted on whether to continue having daylight saving.  The answer was No.  So at least for the next 10 years or so WA will be free of having to change our clocks twice per year.  This is the fourth referendum on daylight saving and each time the answer has been No. 

The yes proponents even tried a dirty trick or two.  On the ballot paper you had to write YES or NO, simple enough, but the yes vote got the electoral commission to pass that a tick be counted as a yes vote but a cross would be invalid!!

As you may have gathered I voted No, purely for my own reasons.  As I trade on the FTSE when the UK is on daylight saving the market opens at 3:30pm our time and closes at 11pm. Even when the UK daylight saving ends opening at 4:30 and closing at midnight is OK.  But when we had daylight saving it became a 5:30 open and 1am close. Too late for me.

Voting caused me a problem.  I forgot to lodge an early vote as I was working yesterday driving my bus around the city.  Fortunately while driving empty between trips I passed a polling station, so I parked and ran in.  There was a long que, but I ran to the front ans asked if they would mind if I went before them as I had a very limited time available. Being in uniform helped and the people understanding. I was in and out of there in 5 minutes, and still managed to start my next trip on time.