Weird Time Zones

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Australia has some very strange time zone differences during summer and even when you've lived your whole life here it can get a bit confusing. Some of our states have daylight savings and some don't, so in summer the clocks jump forward 1 hour in some states but not others. Add to that the fact that central Australia has a weird time zone all of it's own and the results can look a little confusing.

So when organising video conferencing meetings in Australia they need to mark all the different times out quite clearly:

 

[TouhouFan28]

Wait thats so interesting. It'd definitely mess me up at lot. I'm gonna add that to my list of reasons to not visit Australia.

So far we have,
-spiders
-boxing kangaroos
-SUPER HOT!
-Messy timezones

 

[Mary Terry]

Australia has some very strange time zone differences during summer and even when you've lived your whole life here it can get a bit confusing. Some of our states have daylight savings and some don't, so in summer the clocks jump forward 1 hour in some states but not others. Add to that the fact that central Australia has a weird time zone all of it's own and the results can look a little confusing.

So when organising video conferencing meetings in Australia they need to mark all the different times out quite clearly:

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It's the same way in the US. There are nine different time zones in the US and its territories, and some states have daylight savings time while others do not.

 

[monkeyclogs]

only one time zone here and I can barely keep track of that switching twice a year!

 

[Shevek]

My province does not do daylight savings time. Where I live, solar noon is seldom before 1 PM anyway. Canada's weird one is in the east. Every schedule announcement has to add "*:30 in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The incident I love happened when word processors came to a small-town paper just past the time zone of a big city. The secretary was delighted at not having to manually correct all the TV listings by an hour for local publication. Then appeared a listing for "1 AM Cowboy."

 

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My province does not do daylight savings time. Where I live, solar noon is seldom before 1 PM anyway. Canada's weird one is in the east. Every schedule announcement has to add "*:30 in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Central Australian timezone is forward by 30 minutes as well, so Adelaide is at GMT+9:30 standard time. This was done very early on to try and keep business hours closer to that on the east coast and make things a little easier for interstate trade.

Then there's Broken Hill, a mining town in the state of New South Wales that runs on South Australian time because they're so much closer to Adelaide than Sydney. And daylight savings simply doesn't make sense in the tropical regions where there's very little difference between longest and shortest days of the year.

 

[Shamar]

Australia has some very strange time zone differences during summer and even when you've lived your whole life here it can get a bit confusing. Some of our states have daylight savings and some don't, so in summer the clocks jump forward 1 hour in some states but not others. Add to that the fact that central Australia has a weird time zone all of it's own and the results can look a little confusing.

So when organising video conferencing meetings in Australia they need to mark all the different times out quite clearly:

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I remember Adelaide time was off by 1/2 hour. That half hour almost caused me to miss a flight in Sidney. And then driving across the Nullarbor, there was an area that was off by 15 minutes. Weird.

 

[arithmetic]

I quite like to watch the stars.
When the Southern Cross has turned 90 degrees I know that 6 hours have passed.

 

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I remember Adelaide time was off by 1/2 hour. That half hour almost caused me to miss a flight in Sidney. And then driving across the Nullarbor, there was an area that was off by 15 minutes. Weird.

And then there's Kunnanurra, on WA time but so far east of Perth that sun rise is at 5:30 am and sunset around 5:30 pm. All their clocks are set to WA time but business hours there are 7:30 am to 3:30 pm to be more closely aligned with Darwin.