SA Government and Public Feedback

preferred option: A period for public feedback has ended and the SA Government is considering more than 2,500 submissions, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The Government plans to announce a preferred option and release a discussion paper about it, before moving to legislate for any change, unless a decision is taken to leave the status quo. Related Story: Time zone shift deadlock in SA as public remains divided Related Story: SA Government time zone shift good for business: Premier Map: Adelaide 5000 South Australians are debating whether to shift the state to the eastern time zone, move it back 30 minutes for a time zone halfway between east and west, or do nothing and stay 30 minutes behind eastern time. Business generally seems in favour of change and those most vocal about not moving to eastern time live in western parts of South Australia, where it sometimes does not get light until almost 7:30am when the state is observing its six-month annual stretch of daylight saving. Under pressure from the chamber of commerce to adopt eastern standard time , the government of the day came up with a compromise that put clocks 30 minutes behind those on Australia eastern seaboard. In its colonial days South Australia was on a central time zone - an hour behind the east - until 1899. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.