Hi Martin, Yes, you're right. I miss-read it when typing my reply. Thanks for correcting my error and the excellent web link.
Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa-tech.com -----Original Message----- From: Martin Higham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 January 2004 23:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: MapInfo-L Subject: RE: MI-L what time down under? Very precise information. The only minor confusion is that Tasmania starts daylight savings time (summer time) 3 weeks earlier than Vic & NSW, but finishes the at same time ! >From http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml TAS 5/10/2003 - 28/3/2004 VIC, ACT, NSW, SA 26/10/2003 - 28/3/2004 Best Regards, Martin Higham Avantra Geosystems ph (61 3) 8504 0428 0425-730-428 fx (61 3) 9596 7997 www.avantra.com.au > -----Original Message----- > From: Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 10:15 > To: 'Jacques Paris'; 'MIL' > Subject: RE: MI-L what time down under? > > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10049
