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Re: Happy New Year

Still is. I lived two years in Alice Springs, NT, Australia. We were 14 1/2
hours ahead of Washington DC. My Aussie friends explained it by saying that
the NT legislature felt that the Territory was unique enough to warrant its
own clock time, so they decided to make their time half way between the time
in the states of Queensland, NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania, and the time in
the state of South Australia. All Aussies, by the way, call Queensland the
Texas of Australia -- Queenslanders are always bragging about their state.

Paul O. Johnson
Collin County College

----- Original Message -----
From: "crawford j maccallum" <mccallum@UNM.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: Happy New Year


On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, D.V.N.Sarma wrote:
On 31 Dec 2000, at 16:46, Chuck Britton wrote:
(Did I notice somewhere that India adopts a Time Zone that is NOT an
integral number of hours 'off' of GMT????)
Yes. Indian Standard Time is GMT+ 5hrs 30 min.
The Northern Territory in Australia is (or was some years ago) also off by
a half integer number of hours.
Crawford