CHANGING AUSTRALIAN TIME.
With the new year (says the Ilo'oart Mercury) Australasia takes up a new standard of time. The hour zone syctem, which has been adopted, gives three standards of time to the Australian colonies. That for Western Ar-stralia is to be the mean time of the 120ch meridian, or eight hours in advance of Greenwich ; for South Australia that of the 135 th meridian, or r.ine hours ea«t- if Greenwich ; and for Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland that of the 150 th meridian, or 10 hours east of Greenwich. At present Hobart time is given at 9hr 49'iiiu. 19 2sec., and Lauuceston 9hr 4Smin. 56sce. cast of Greenwich. The new tune will, therefore, make us something just over lOuiin. faster tliau we were. Melbourne will have to go ahead a trifle over 20min., while Brisbane people will hare to tret their clocks ]2min. 20secs lower, and Sydney tinukeepers must, to be precise and particular, go back 4min. 47 e'2sec. in order to keep common time with their neighbours.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 115, 15 February 1895, Page 4
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172CHANGING AUSTRALIAN TIME. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 115, 15 February 1895, Page 4
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