ALTERING THE CLOCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20384, 12 October 1929, Page 10

ALTERING THE CLOCK.

ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS.

RESET THE HANDS TO-NIGHT.

CHANGE TO SUMMER TIME.

To advance all clocks and watches half-an-hour will be a duty devolving upon householders to-morrow, when summertime will come into operation throughout the Dominion. Officially, time will be advanced from 2 a.m., and in tho case of Government departments and the City Council the strict letter of the law will bo followed, the hands of clocks being snoved forward 30 minutes directly the hour of two has struck. As tho change occurs on a Sunday, when business premises are closed, the urgency of performing the necessary operation is not so pressing in the case of privately-owned clocks. Those premises in charge of resident caretakers will have their clocks altered at various times throughout the morning, although there may be isolated cases in which the change will not bo effected until the staff arrives at work on Monday morning. The churches and tramways, however, will observe the change to-morrow, so that the best advice to the householder is to put his clocks and watches forward before retiring to bed to-night. To neglect this little matter is to run tho risk of finding the service half over by the time he reaches the church door. Ferry, bus and train services will run strictly to summer time to-morrow, so that excursionists will need to have their watches nicely in sympathy to save subsequent recriminations.

All train services in the Auckland district will conform to surr.uwr time and no exceptions will bo made as was the case last year to suit tho convenience of isolated groups of dairy farmers. Wireless enthusiasts need to remember that as New Zealand time is one-and-a-half hours ahead of Australian time, the act of advancing tho clock half-an-hour will increase the margin to two hours. Calendars setting out the»hours of the sun, moon and tides, standard time, should be read half-an-hour ahead.

According to the Summer Time Act, ■which, by the way, makes daylight saving a permanent institution each summer, the clock will be put back at two o'clock on the morning of Sunday, March 16, 1930, thus giving the country the benefit of daylight saving for months.