October 03, 2004
Spring Forward
For those who are interested in time differences between Australia and the US, we have just had a change. Time change, that is. Daylight savings. We’ve sprung forward by one hour more. I’m not sure if the US has already had it’s fall back, so if you are living in Kansas City, St. Louis, or anywhere else in the Central Time Zone and have recently set your clock back by one hour, then we are now 17 hours apart. (If you haven’t changed the clock, logic states that it would be a 16 hour difference until you do.) The easiest way to calculate this 17 hour difference is by adding five hours to your current time, then switching from a.m. to p.m. or vice versa, and you will know what time it is in Tassie. Click here if you are too lazy to do the math.
The strange thing about Time Zones in Australia is that they are determined by state and not nation. So Tasmania is on Daylight Savings, but Queensland isn’t—they tried it and didn’t like it. So they are in the same time zone, but not on the same time. Bizarre.
Posted by at 4:32 pm
Wow… I thought that was just an American thing. Huh!timsamoff () (URL) - October 04, 2004 at 07:58 am
