Australia chat: strangers by text or voice, a day ahead

The measured window uses Sydney's summer clock, AEDT (UTC+11), which began on the first Sunday of October. On other Australian clocks it reads 21:00-01:00 in Brisbane, 21:30-01:30 in Adelaide, 20:30-00:30 in Darwin and 19:00-23:00 in Perth. Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia do not change clocks, and Adelaide sits half an hour off Sydney.

So your state sets the clock and nothing else. If you live in Perth, the hour to try is early evening, not midnight. The sharp peak also means the hours around it hold a smaller share of the day's matches, so come inside the window when you can.

In UTC the window is 11:00-15:00, so it reads 11:00-15:00 in London on winter time, one hour later while London is on summer time, and 15:00-19:00 in Dubai. In New York it is 06:00-10:00 in winter, a morning. Those are clock readings, not a count of who is online.

Daylight saving ends in Sydney on the first Sunday of April. If the pattern stays where it is on UTC, the same hours read 21:00-01:00 in Sydney in winter, but only October is measured. Start in a text chat or a voice call inside your window, and press Skip or Next if the language does not fit.

Matching ignores state and city. Australian English has its own shortenings, so swap a local word for a plain one when you hear a blank pause. If a call turns nasty, Report sends the last 60 seconds of the other side's audio; the call itself is not recorded. Reports go to our moderation queue and are reviewed by a person.

The Premium Plus country filter (what it does) includes Australia and widens to everyone after 20 seconds. Our privacy page says what is kept and for how long.