[time-nuts] How can it be :05 in one place and :30 in another

Gretchen Baxter gretchendenisebaxter at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 03:13:50 UTC 2008


So if a call is called for 10:00 in one part, it is really 10:30 in the
other?

that sounds lame.  is it?



On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Rex Moncur <rmoncur at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> Gretchen
>
> Adelaide (South Australia) has a half hour time difference to Eastern
> Australian Time. These things are caused by having a Federation of States
> where the States make their own laws about time.
>
> Rex VK7MO
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Gretchen Baxter
> Sent: Sunday, 26 October 2008 1:45 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: [time-nuts] How can it be :05 in one place and :30 in another
>
> Hi,
>
> I went to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
>
> I saw that it was 10:35 in New York but in Adelaide it was 1:05 PM and in
> New Delhi 8:05.
>
> How can that be?
>
> Gretchen
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