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that it is mentioned in several places and all seem to flow back to either the John Mackin text in the UTC Time code page or a couple of media people from the same sector of Victoria, maybe from the same uni or something. It's clearly NOT widespread not has been. I suspect it comes under the same heading as the outback Queensland reference to DST as A$$h0le time - ie a local dialectic use which probably got a wider issue due to the work a few of the people did.

I've not heard it in any of the ABC broadcasts or Vic broadcasts I've seen over the years. However, it's only in recent years that I started listening to the ABC radio broadcasts although I did used to watch all the ABC TV cricket broadcasts up to the early 1990s.

There are a lot of references to the use of DST during the 'Summer Time' (meaning the summer period) and thus not really relevant to the discussion.