SUMMERTIME IN BRITAIN
1 PA—Bv Electric Telegraph— Copyrlghtl (Received 15th April, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, 14th April. Summertime operates at 2 a.m. on Sunday. TIME CALCULATIONS English householders will advance their clocks an hour, which means that until New Zealand summer- | ne lapses on 30th April, the Dominion Will be 11 hours ahead of Greenwich mean time, instead of 12, as at present. When New Zealand reverts to normal time on 30th April, and the clocks are put back, the country will be only 10£ hours ahead of England. Similarly, it is now two hours ahead of Sydney, but with the passing of summertime, New Zealand will be only one and a-half hours ahead.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 15 April 1939, Page 8
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