PUTTING ON THE CLOCK.
STANDARDISATION of time,
The proposal made some time ago that an alteration should be made in the standard time in New Zealand is given effect to in the New Zealand Standard Time Bill, read in the House of Representatives for the first time. From the date on which the Act comes into force, 3rd October, 1920, New Zealand standard time is to be twelve hours in advance of Greenwich mean time. This, of course, advances the clock by half an hour as compared with pi-esent conditions.
In November, 1916, the council of the Wellington Philosophical Society unanimously resolved to urge upon the Government the desirability of making New Zealand mean time exactly 12 hours in advance of Greenwich mean time. The proposal was supported on several grounds. It is claimed that an immediate consequence would be a savingin all artificial lighting of half ap hour daily, materially reducing the maximum power demand on electric and gas lighting and power plants in the winter time. There is an International Time Agreement that mean time should be an exact number of hours different from Greenwich time. At present, as the standard time is that of the meridian nearly passing through Lincoln, Canterbury, the whole of the North Island and a considerable part of the South Island, are slow on New Zealand time. Finally, it is claimed that “most workshops and offices would be enabled to open and close in winter within the hours of daylight, while in the summer an additional half hour would be available in the evening for outdoor work or recreation. It is already the piactice of many farmers, sawmillers, engineers, surveyors, and others to keep the clock fast on New Zealand time, in order to take advantage of the daylight in winter time.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2148, 6 July 1920, Page 4
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299PUTTING ON THE CLOCK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2148, 6 July 1920, Page 4
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