Re: time zones question...
Subject: Re: time zones question...
From: John Simmonds (johnsimmo@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 20:00:30 EST
I would suggest that NZ time _is_ daylight saving
Russell Sher wrote:
>
> Here in S.A., we are 2 hours ahead of UTC.
> A student of mine who did a celestial nav. course with me pointed out in our
> local telephone directory that New Zealand time is given as being 11 hours
> ahead of S.A. time. This would suggest that N.Z. is 13 hours ahead of UTC.
> According to the directory, winter times are given. (Is N.Z. really 13 hours
> of UTC as suggested?) This seems a bit strange. Here in S.A. we keep
> standard time (SAST), but N.Z. doesn't appear to span more than one time
> zone so would they not just keep a zone time?
> Can anyone explain this?
>
> Regards
> Russell
