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Time zones question...
From: Russell Sher
Date: 2000 Feb 28, 12:26 AM
From: Russell Sher
Date: 2000 Feb 28, 12:26 AM
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