Daylight saving returns on the first Sunday of October in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT, putting the clocks forward an hour. 26 October 2029 falls in this month of change, while Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory keep the same clock they run all year, unaffected by the switch.
A public holiday on a Friday pairs directly with the Saturday and Sunday that follow it, producing one of the two most common three-day-weekend patterns on the Australian calendar. Friday 26 October 2029 falls on this day of the week, the last working day of its standard Monday-to-Friday week before the weekend begins.
2029 has 365 days on the calendar. Leap years add a single extra day to February, giving those years 366 days instead of 365 and shifting the day-of-year number for every date from March onward by one compared with an ordinary year. This is the only irregularity in the length of the Australian calendar year.