How many tourists are going to drive that far? It's a 13 hour drive from Adelaide, 12 hours from Perth. I've only ever heard of people driving to Perth, stoppin

How many tourists are going to drive that far? It's a 13 hour drive from Adelaide, 12 hours from Perth. I've only ever heard of people driving to Perth, stopping at a roadhouse, and getting weirded out by the clock not matching the time they thought it was. And if it was attracting any significant amount of tourism, you'd think they'd be able to support a population of somewhat more than 200 people scattered over hundreds of square kilometres. Surely the reason it exists is just because it does. Legally valid things done in this area are done on standard time - e.g. the polls close at 6:45 local time because they close at 6pm standard time. But it doesn't really matter what time two people meet when they say "lets meet at 2pm" and trying to change that would require an unwarranted intrusion and an unnecessary expense. I'm told the area around Broken Hill is equivalently odd - although there's official boundaries for the timezone there (Yancowinna County, or somesuch) but there's also the actual boundaries that people use (depending on whether they agree that they're in Broken Hill or not). The expense and intrusion of trying to enforce strict timezone boundaries on boundary-area dwellers just isn't justified to the people who live near them and it isn't justified to the people in the capital cities. It's different in the capital city, or on the more heavily populated border areas (e.g. Tweed Heads/Coolangatta area) where you're more likely to have to do business with a stranger.