Hello Jacques, There are actually only three time zones in mainland Australia but there is a mixture in observance of daylight savings time (DST). This is probably what your respondent was talking about.
Here's the information for Australia from our global time zone layer: Western Australia: GMT+8, No DST South Australia: GMT+9.5, DST: +1 (26 Oct 03 - 28 Mar 04) Northern Territory: GMT+9.5, No DST Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria: GMT+10, DST: +1 (26 Oct 03 - 28 Mar 04) Queensland: GMT+10, No DST There are some exceptions in Australia... places near a state border where they observe the TZ/DST from across the border for convenience. This happens in quite a few places in the world. E.g. Canada. I have not listed them here. Also unlisted are islands (e.g. Lord Howe, GMT+10.5 with DST as above). Often initially confusing for folks in the northern hemisphere is that Australia (and other places in the southern hemisphere) have DST during "our" winter time - which is of course their summer. This can make time difference calculations a bit confusing. For instance, the time difference between London and Melbourne is 9 hours during my (UK) summer, and (currently) 11 hours during my winter. Europa Technologies will be launching a web site later this year which will allow you to query exact times anywhere in the world. You will be able to build you own set of locations and instantly see clocks for all those location on a single web page. It will not be the first site of this nature but hopefully one of the most informative and best presented. Hope that helps. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa-tech.com Tel: +44 (0)20 8398 3955 x201 -----Original Message----- From: Jacques Paris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 January 2004 21:36 To: MIL Subject: MI-L what time down under? I have made available on our site for a while a world map of time zones and someone notified me today that if the map was basically "great", Australia was wrong. He based his comment on the data given by http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ that seem to indicate that there are at least 5 different local times compared to the 3 in "my" map. Would anyone have a simple map of the time zones for Australia with which I could update mine? And do you have "summer" time and when would it apply? Could the discrepancies come from summer time being in use now? TIA Jacques Paris e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] MapBasic-MapInfo support http://www.paris-pc-gis.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10044 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10045
