SUMMER TIME ENDING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 12

SUMMER TIME ENDING.

CHANGE MADE TO-MORROW.

CLOCKS TO BE ALTERED. HALF-HOUR'S DAYLIGHT LOST. To-day will be the last day of the summer-time period, which commenced on JOctober 11, 1931. At 2 a.m. to-morrow the return to standard time will be made and all clocks will require to be put back half an hour, a task the householder usually performs prior to retiring to-night. The majority of public clocks will not bo altered until the correct hour by nightwatchmen in the buildings where they are situated. In some cases in the past, however, the change has not been made until Monday morning, and the public must be prepared for such discrepancies in time to-morrow. In the past there have been cases where zealous caretakers have put tlio clock back at a late hour on Saturday .evening, to the consternation of late homegoers. Workers on all-night shifts will be forced to work for an extra half hour, policemen, watchmen and railway employees all being faced with the melancholy task of putting their watches back for half an hour and carrying on until the scheduled finishing time has arrived. The extra half-hour will, however, be only a repayment of the short time they worked on the morning of October 12, when the clocks were advanced half an hour. Now that days are drawing to a close earlier, the transition will be keenly felt at first. A movement to have reversion to standard time delayed until after the Easter period failed, and people will miss the extra half-hour of daylight during the holiday. Ferry, motor-bus and train services will be run in accordance with standard time to-morrow. The Railway Department will make the change at 2.30 a.m., and the only train to be affected will be the express from Wellington, which normally reaches Auckland at 6.38 a.m. It will apparently gain half an hour in its running from Te Kuiti, where the alteration will be made, and will leave Te Kuiti on this one morning at 2.14 a.m. by the advanced clock and not at 2.44 a.m., its normal time of departure. Departing times for the train after leaving Te Kuiti will be as follows:—Te Awamutu, 3 a.m.; Frankton Junction, 3.39 a.m., and Mercer, 4.49 a.m. It will arrivo at Auckland at 6.8 a.m., standard time, instead of at 6.38 a.m. No other passenger trains will be affected by the change. Now that New Zealand is reverting to standard time wireless listeners will require to remember that local time will be only one and a-half hours ahead of Australian time and not two hours, as during summer time. The reversion to standard time will have no effect on tide tables or other times given in the New Zealand Nautical Almanac, while for the purpose of astronomy, meteorology or navigation standard time has been used in almost every instance in publications and periodicals.