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Daylight saving to be extended for the Olympics

Daylight saving will be extended by two months in Victoria in 2000 to coincide with the Sydney Olympic Games.

Small Business and Tourism Minister Louise Asher has announced that daylight saving in Victoria will start on the last Sunday in August 2000 and end, as usual, on the last Sunday in March 2001.

The change will give consistency with New South Wales during the Olympic year.

"The consideration of some key border and business disruption issues between Victoria and New South Wales is pivotal to our decision to have consistency between the states," Ms Asher said.

"This decision will remove any confusion or disruption caused by possible time differences in the Olympic year."

Ms Asher said this extension to daylight saving was a one-off response to the request from New South Wales for the period of the Olympics.

(News Release, Office of the Minister for Tourism and Small Business, July 28, 1999)