Well, I guess some of you living down under must have several watches on you, especially if you are living in the border areas between these time zones ;-)
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Please note our new telephone, direct and telefax numbers. > -----Original Message----- > From: Simmonds, Ashley (OPT) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:27 AM > To: MIL > Subject: RE: MI-L what time down under? > > > dammit, fergot NT who don't do DST either, so yeah, there's 5 > time zones. > > plus i messed up my map by trying to give credit... > > -------------------------- > Australia - states > > ,'', |\ > ,'._/ \, | | > / NT ` \ ascii map credits to Sher > ,'` QLD \ www.mirc-rainbow.com/sher > \ WA SA ) > : ____ NSW/ > ',__.,' `\ VIC / > `'.,'` > _ > (_) TAS > | | > +8 | +9.5 | +10 > | | > -------------------------- > > -------------------------- > Australia - current times > > ,'', |\ > ,'._/ \, | | > / +9.5 ` \ > ,'` +10 \ > \ +8 +10.5 ) > : ____ +11/ > ',__.,' `\ +11 / > `'.,'` > _ > (_) +11 > -------------------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simmonds, Ashley (OPT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 9:46 AM > To: MIL > Subject: RE: MI-L what time down under? > > > i can't say i'm FULLY aware of what those weirdo's on the > other side of the country do... but here's the basics... > > there are 3 major time zones, Western (+8), Central (+9.5), > and Eastern (+10). > > Western Australia goes by Western time, however they don't > "celebrate" daylight savings, so it is GMT +8 all year round. > Northern Territory and South Australia (gee we have inventive > state names) are Central, and DO support daylight savings, > which means we are currently GMT +10.5. (i'm in adelaide, > south oz) then it gets weird, coz all the eastern states > (queensland, new south wales, victoria, tasmania, ACT) go by > eastern standard time, however a couple of them don't do > daylight savings, which means you have some people in the > same time zone who are separated by an hour. > > so to the best of my knowledge, there are at any time 4 > different time zones going on, possibly 5 as Tasmania is a > time warp unto itself. > > -------------------------- > Australia > > ,'', |\ > ,'._/ \, | | > / NT ` \ ascii map credits to Sher - > www.mirc-rainbow.com/sher > ,'` QLD \ > \ WA SA ) > : ____ NSW/ > ',__.,' `\ VIC / > `'.,'` > _ > (_) TAS > | | > +8 | +9.5 | +10 > | | > -------------------------- > > i thought there's no easy way to include a map in a message, > then i thought i'd google up "ascii maps" got this map from > here... http://www.mirc-rainbow.com/sher/index.htm , could be useful. > > as for daylight savings times, in my stuff i must have once > looked it up, as this years GPS data gets processed based on > a variable i have called DaylightSpendings, which appears is > applicable between 26/Oct/2003 and 28/Mar/2004. > > hope that helps. > > ash > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jacques Paris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2004 8:06 AM > 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: 10046 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | > www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message number: 10047 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10076
