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Originally Posted by Wavytone
Skysurfer, not quite. Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania are all In the Timezone GMT+10. The issue you allude to is that Queensland does not have daylight saving in summer whereas the others do ie clocks are set 1 hour forward.
South Australia’s time zone is GMT+9h30m, and also has daylight saving in summer.
The dates for daylight saving are gazetted by the government each year.
There is also a difference between UTC and GMT (splitting hairs, I know).
What I’d like is metric time as tried briefly in France after the revolution. 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour and 100 seconds per minute.
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Why SA and NT don't have full hour time differences I don't know. Why not +9 or +10 (preferably, same as eastern states) ?
The French revolution decimal time was a bad idea.
What I prefer more: no timezones at all, the entire world using UTC (or AEST or whatever), but probably not feasible. Just like the whole world (except the USA) works with a single unit such as kilometers, kilograms, etc.
The next best is : only full hour timezones and no DST in any place. Simple.