BORDER residents may have awoken yesterday morning feeling a little like their bed had become a time machine.

Tweed Shire clocks were moved forward an hour as is customary under daylight saving and the Daylight Saving for South East Queensland party has also moved with the times - become a virtual party.

To explain: their former leader Jason Furze is no longer in his position; there is apparently no-one available for phone interviews with members of the media and the entire political force now operates via email and social networking.

In a statement a spokesperson said DS4SEQ planned to contest the Queensland State election with "equally virtual candidates".

"Via its website, the party is taking registrations of interest for people to run as candidates who will do little else except pay their deposit.

"The plan is to encourage candidates to run on this basis so that as many voters as possible will have the opportunity to send a message to the major parties that daylight saving is an important issue that needs to be adequately addressed," the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson added the standard comments which are either agreed with, or not contested here, but seem to affect dairy cows' sleeping patterns outside of Cairns, or something.

"Daylight saving commenced in all other eastern states and South Australia on Sunday, meaning Queensland once again got left behind.

"Time in Queensland is governed by outdated legislation - the Standard Time Act 1894.

"While frustrating, it is easy to see why Queensland gets labelled as being behind the times, given the State's reliance upon 19th century legislation to administer time.

"All other Australian States and Territories have replaced their standard time acts with modernised versions, or supplemented them with daylight saving legislation, to move with the times."

The party gave more insight into its "virtual" tactic, explaining it like other minor parties found it hard to compete against the majors "given their well-established networks and superior access to funding and resources".

"This new approach recognises the reality that DS4SEQ is run on a shoe-string budget by a small band of passionate volunteers who simply want to achieve democracy on daylight saving."