Brisbane, Australia is one place that should really be on permanent "daylight savings time" relative to Melbourne and Sydney, or to put it a different way, be U

Brisbane, Australia is one place that should really be on permanent "daylight savings time" relative to Melbourne and Sydney, or to put it a different way, be UTC+11 rather than UTC+10. Sunrise tomorrow morning will be 4:57am and by the solstice - 4:45am. Sydney on DST will be a much more civilised 5:57am. That's sun shining in your window being on the East coast, it's actually getting light much earlier! If Brisbane was permanently UTC+11 it would be on the same time as Sydney through summer (DST is 6 months of the year) and then an hour ahead for winter. The latest sunrise time in winter would then be 7:38am which is the same as Melbourne's and 1/2 hour later than Sydney. But given it's the dry season and rarely overcast, daylight will begin more like 7:00am.