h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

NZ Standard Time (NZST) : GMT +12 hours
NZ Daylight Savings Time (NZDT) : GMT +13 hours (from the first Sunday in October until the third Sunday in March the following year)

source : http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Other-Services-Daylight-Saving?OpenDocument



excellent page Titania . please add new zealand to this page and me to A831656.


kea

Oh my God - a new timezone? *tries to remember how she created the timezone table in the first place*

OK - done! Could you please have a look at A831656 to check that I got it right?

thanks Titania. its looking good. i've posted the links on one of the nz/oz threads to let the kiwis know. hope you don't get inundated

any chance of getting nz on U203563 as well?

Can I add it under the title 'Australia' if I change the title to... uh... well, what do you call it? Australia and Oceania?

Australasia perhaps but Oceania is so much nicer (leaving out the australia bit in the title).

i'll run it by the nz/oz researchers 'cos i'm curious now what people think is best (or accurate).

can i get back to you?

Hi Titania (and kea)!

Another Kiwi checking in...


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I would suggest that both Australasia and Oceania are redundant terms (akin to using Eurasia) in the context of describing an area that is 'separated' by 5 (or is it 6?) hours

So... I'd suggest listing NZ and Oz seperately

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six7s

hi six7s. what are you doing up at this hour?

as much as i like the idea of nz having its own heading, i can see why Titania might want to put a group of time zones under one heading (like the europe one).

it would also include Fiji i think. and what about countries north of australia? i'll have to look as an atlas tomorrow.


after i posted before i started thinking about what a strange word australasia is. do you know where it came from originally and why? and what does it include apart from oz and nz?

Australasia? Sounds as if it might include some of the mostly-islands-countries in the south-east-ish corner of Asia...

Just after I posted, I saw how the page is grouped and thought maybe asking for NZ to be listed on it's own is a bit cheeky - I'd be happy for us to be listed under Polynesia though

So I've been digging and found
http://greenwichmeantime.com/local/pacific/pf.htm

Some times...

GMT - 10 Cook Islands and Tahiti

GMT - 11 Samoa and American Samoa
GMT + 13 Tonga

GMT - 12 NZ (aka Aotearoa) and Fiji

According to http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~minibbjd/tonga/polynes.gif
Hawaii, Easter Island and the Marquesas are Polynesia too

So - uh - what would the correct title be?

Polynesia

*scribbles*

Po-ly-ne-si-a - and that includes Australia, New Zealand and other obscure islands?

Not Australia - see the gif link above

Ah - sorry - forgot to check the link - OK, how about 'Australia & Polynesia'?

*calculates time, ending up with 2500 hrs*

You stayed up past midnight? Is it already Saturday over there?

i'm not sure Polynesia is right. mainly because it crosses the international date line. hawaii and samoa etc are a whole day behind nz. they probably should be listed higher than europe on the list.

actually it should go hawaii, US, europe, asia, then us lot (thats working east from the internationsla date line). or the other way around (start with nz and work west)

and i think australia, nz, fiji, tonga etc should be in the same grouping. just not sure what to call it.


six7s, i'm not sure what that link was doing but nz is 13 hours *ahead* of GMT, until daylight savings ends and then its 12 hours ahead.


australasia is a term used to describe australia and nz. it may include other islands but doesn't include asian countries. i'll go look it up.

six7s how come you thought australasia and oceania were redundant now?

i'll post on the oz/nz thread too in case anyone else wants to be involved in this very important matter (certainly wouldn't want to jeopordise aussie/kiwi relations by getting it wrong )

You know what? I'll set the title to 'Australia & New Zealand' because they are roughly in the same part of the world, and then worry about the islands if/when a researcher comes along and wants to be listed...

Nuff