Daylight saving remains in effect throughout March in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT, with the clocks not going back until the first Sunday of April. 16 March 2029 still runs on daylight time in those five jurisdictions, one of the last full months of extended evening light before the shift into shorter winter days.
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 16 March 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.