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commit 8b627392c1b93c2abcc1946db354af99695059d4
Author: Paul King <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon Feb 20 22:21:04 2023 +1000
additional blog
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site/src/site/blog/australian-timezones.adoc | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/site/src/site/blog/australian-timezones.adoc
b/site/src/site/blog/australian-timezones.adoc
index 9efd17e..84be845 100644
--- a/site/src/site/blog/australian-timezones.adoc
+++ b/site/src/site/blog/australian-timezones.adoc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
= Australian Time Zones
Paul King
-:revdate: 2023-02-202T20:00:00+00:00
+:revdate: 2023-02-20T20:00:00+00:00
:keywords: groovy, datetime, timezone, date
:description: Inspired by a recent update related to Antarctic timezones, this
post looks at some interesting Australian time zone facts.
@@ -194,7 +194,8 @@
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Australia#:~:text=The%20Indian%20Pacific%2
We won't follow this unofficial timezone in our later exploration,
but it would add another to our list if we wanted to include it too!
-Another strange timezone fact applies to the pristine Lord Howe Island.
+Another strange timezone fact applies to the pristine
+https://lordhoweisland.info/[Lord Howe Island].
Lord Howe Island is a little over 600 km out from the north coast of New South
Wales.
That's about 1/4 of the way to New Zealand! Being that far East of the
mainland,
it rightly has a timezone 30 minutes earlier than the mainland.
@@ -251,3 +252,16 @@ The two assertions pass and the final println has the
following output:
----
[+10:00, +11:00, +07:00, +08:45, +09:30, +10:30, +05:00, +08:00, +06:30,
+12:00]
----
+
+Just one final timezone obscurity to wrap up.
+
+The Queensland-New South Wales border actually cuts Gold Coast Airport almost
+precisely in half, including the runway. Technically, flights departing in the
summer
+months leave the terminal in one time zone and take off from the ground in
another.
+This has the potential to severely muck up the airlines _departed-on-time_
statistics!
+Thankfully the airport chooses to operate exclusively on Queensland time to
avoid
+any potential confusion.
+
+Incidentally, if you love to celebrate New Year's Eve, Gold Coast might be the
+perfect destination. You can party and watch fireworks in Tweed Heads before
heading
+just 10s of metres North to count down to midnight all over again, just one
hour later.
