If you feel exceptionally well-rested today or your children were jumping out of bed an hour earlier than usual, that's the daylight saving effect.
New Zealand's clocks went back overnight, signalling a return to standard time, but with the US Senate recently voting to stay in daylight saving hours from 2023, there's an ongoing debate about whether we should scrap all that clock-turning too.
Keeping daylight saving time permanently is popular among some New Zealanders.
"Daylight saving is great I reckon, just keep it going," one person told Newshub.
"Few more hours of fun activities in the afternoons and stuff, I really enjoy it," another said.
There's currently a petition asking Parliament to amend the Time Act by ending our clock changes and sticking to daylight saving time permanently, giving us more light at the end of every day.
"The clock changes are disruptive, they're unnatural and they're unnecessary, which is why we've started a petition to actually make daylight savings year-round to remove that rude interruption that happens twice a year," Take Back the Clocks founder Louis Houlbrooke said.
One small Fiordland town has recently been at the forefront of the clock-turning conversation.
'Te Anau time' was introduced as a tongue-in-cheek push to keep daylight saving around, with outsiders asking locals whether they actually weren't winding back the clocks.
"Yeah a bit of confusion in the pilot fraternity. One of them gave me a call and said, 'We don't know whether Te Anau is or isn't [changing time]', and actually we're the same as the rest of the country, we just get more daylight," pilot Ivan Krippner said.
The US Senate recently passed legislation to make daylight saving time permanent from the end of 2023, but whether that will happen in New Zealand remains to be seen.
