I'm the one in Christchurch NZ yep 2am goes to 3am and 3am reverts to 2am. At least we got off to a good start ... the beginning of DST is usually marked by a wet, cold southerly change. This time it was fine and 22C.
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Hauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [HCDX] RNZI off air on 30th Sept for Antenna Maintenance > Paul (which Paul are you?), > > I was going by timeanddate.com which has a handy table of DST dates. > > Not to quibble, but the NZ government says otherwise at > http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Index?OpenDocument > > ``Daylight Saving [sic] Time > From this year, Daylight Saving will run for a period of 27 weeks. It now > commences from the last Sunday in September, when 2.00am becomes 3.00am, > and > ends on the first Sunday in April the following year, when 3.00am becomes > 2.00am. > > Daylight Saving will commence on Sunday 30 September 2007 (when clocks are > put > forward one hour), and end on 6 April 2008, (when clocks are put back one > hour).`` > > So it started at 1400 UT Saturday, i.e. at 2 am local time Sunday, clox > were > reset to read 3 am. > > Perhaps you can answer this: does ``NZST`` on the RNZI notice mean NZ > Standard > Time, or NZ Summer Time? 73, Glenn Hauser > > --- Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Daylight saving actually started at 3AM on Sunday 30th September ...... >> or >> if you like at 1500 UTC on Saturday 29th September ... >> >> Paul >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Glenn Hauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 8:50 AM >> Subject: Re: [HCDX] RNZI off air on 30th Sept for Antenna Maintenance >> >> >> > Wrong, wrong, wrong. RNZI is royally mixed up yet again. Sept 30 is >> > Sunday, not >> > Saturday. Apparently they are also not aware that summer time already >> > started >> > UT Sept 29 at 1400, so local time is UT +13. That would convert to >> > 2135-0500 >> > UT, presumably Saturday into UT Sunday. The incorrect UT conversion >> > should >> > have >> > read 2235-0600. Experience also shows that such predicted downtimes are >> > often >> > only approximate and it may be missing beyond these times. Always >> > beware >> > of >> > quoting RNZI website without explicatory, corrective notes such as >> > these >> > (Glenn >> > Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) >> > >> > --- Alokesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> >From RNZI website....... >> >> >> >> Saturday 30 Sep Off-Air for Antenna Maintenance >> >> 27 Sep, 2007 22:05 UTC >> >> >> >> Saturday 30 September, we regret further antenna repairs are required. >> >> Transmission on short-wave will suspended between 1035 - 1800 NZST >> >> [1035-0600 UTC] >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Alokesh Gupta >> >> New Delhi, India. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> > Luggage? GPS? Comic books? >> > Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! 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