Brisbane's mayor wants Queensland to trial daylight saving. 

Daylight saving kicked in for most of Australia on Sunday at 2am, pushing clocks forward one hour to make the most of sunny spring and summer days. 

Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has used to switchover to push for Queensland residents should to trial the scheme once again.

“All I'm asking is if people go give it a try, and then let people have their say,” he said.

Queensland trialled daylight saving in the early 1990s, but the state voted against keeping the scheme in 1992 

“Thirty years ago [was] the last time that Queensland has had the opportunity to experience daylight saving,” Mr Schrinner said.

“A large percentage of the Queensland population has not had the opportunity either to experience it in person to have a trial, or most importantly to have a say on whether they like it or not.”

Mr Schrinner says the scheme will benefit Queensland residents’ ways of life and their wallets.

“It's just about having people out and about enjoying the city, the state, the economy, spending money in local businesses - there is a massive injection that can occur,” he said.

He claims Queensland misses out on up to $4 billion without daylight saving.

Over 1,300km to the north of Brisbane, Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill says north Queensland residents know where they stand on the matter.

“We don't need to extend the time by an extra hour to get time during summer. It happens for us naturally,” she said.

‘Queensland is a big state and once you get past the Tropic of Capricorn it's a little different for us here in the north. In summertime, we have sunsets that occur 50 minutes after they occur in Brisbane.

“If Brisbane wants to be a separate state because it wants daylight saving and wants everything else that people have in New South Wales — join New South Wales. Queensland is a different place,” Ms Hill said.

Mr Schrinner suggests Queensland could be split into two time zones.

“It's always better to do these things across the whole state. But there are other examples where there are different time zones in different locations,” he said. 

The state government says changing its timezone is not a priority.