Daylight saving shapes how we spend, socialise and travel, NSW data reveals
Exclusive: As the shortest day of the year draws near, government study shows how earlier sunsets curb economic activity and public transport trips
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Daylight saving and its delayed sunsets encourages people to stay out later and spend more money, New South Wales government data shows. The data also found more evening light attracts people to public transport and out of their cars.
Conversely, that uptick in mobility almost entirely vanishes in the days after clocks are wound back an hour, as earlier sunsets cut post-work social and economic activity, the data showed.
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