If you take a look at the Summer Time Zone map, it seems that one can
(theoretically) go west from Queensland to South Australia and go AHEAD a
half-hour.
--- anorak222 <
wolfi.junkmail@...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "anton_zeilinger" <anton_zeilinger@h...>
> wrote:
> > That's interesting!
> >
> > "Turn back clocks 45 min"
> >
> > In the middle of Australia?
>
> I don't get that either. According to any time zone maps I find,
> Australia is in the time zones GMT+7, GMT+8:30, GMT+9.
> http://worldfactsandfigures.com/images/timezones.jpg
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~jacob/timezone.html
>
> In summer, some states of Australia shift to daylight savings time
> and some don't, which seems to give this even odder pattern:
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~jacob/timesum.jpg
>
> OK so it's odd, main reason being that the central time is out of
> synch from the usual full hour hops. But at no location do they ever
> get 0:45. All hops are still multiples of 0:30. What's going on here?
>
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