DAYLIGHT SAVING.
Although there is much opposition by the farmers to "Sidey-time," it would scent that such is only an advance of fourteen minutes over real sun-time, after all. for the quite sufficient reason that Xew Zealand "Standard" time appears to lie sixteen minutes behind longitude time. Even now, with 12} hours' sunlight, the sun, by "Standard" time, is not yet setting at six o'clock. So I am certain that "Standard" time is actually slow time. Certain it is that in the same longitude 011 the equator, 011 September lit, the sun set at six o'clock and rose at six o'clock next morning. But in Xew Zealand 011 that date "Standard" time gave sunset as .1.44 and sunrise the following morning as f>.44. Sixteen minutes slow. How do the farmers like that? AMATEUR.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 238, 7 October 1936, Page 6
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