Daylight saving ends on the first Sunday of April in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT, putting the clocks back an hour. 12 April 2030 falls in the month where those five states move off daylight time, while Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory keep the same clock they have run all year without any change.
Traffic volumes, flight bookings and getaway trips peak on Friday afternoons across Australian cities as the working week ends. Friday 12 April 2030 falls on this day of the week, at the close of its standard five-day working stretch, marking the start of the weekend for the standard Monday-to-Friday workforce.
2030 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.