Australians woken up an hour early by technical glitch are tired and grumpy

Some Queenslanders got a first-hand experience with daylight savings time Wednesday morning due to a technical glitch by telecommunications company Optus.

Those in southern Queensland woke up an hour earlier than expected due to the clocks on their mobile phones moving an hour forward. The glitch started early this morning and was resolved around 7 a.m. local time, an Optus spokesperson told Mashable.

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But it was too late for many residents, who used the spare hour to get on Twitter and complain about the early rise and the horrible impact it had on their lives. Daylight savings time is observed in Australia in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory, where clocks are moved forward an hour in the warmer months, but not in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Read more...

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