Spring forward

Has anyone even seen one single commercial that it’s daylight saving today? Total mystery to me.
   Normally the TV commercials are full of ads reminding us to put our clocks forward. I was still up in the small hours watching Parkinson after dropping a friend off home after he flew back to Wellington last night. I seem to recall that if one was still up by 2 a.m. there would be an announcement by the continuity announcer on TV.
   I know it’s not the media’s responsibility to remind me, but I find it strange, is all, since I have known about all other daylight saving dates in advance in this country. Someone would have mentioned something. This would have been the first one  I didn’t know about or had even heard about. Days ago I was telling Kiwis who had asked me—because they had not heard a peep, either—that from my recollection, New Zealand daylight time began the first Sunday of October.
   Surely the state-owned networks, though, still have some duty to the public to carry national announcements like this? Now that many people work Sundays, I guess a lot of New Zealanders will be arriving at their appointments an hour late today—like me!
   Unless someone’s playing a prank on me and they’re a week early!