Timber Floor Au

A mate mentioned cpl of years back, this scenario, and it still makes me chuckle to this day.

2 fellas, 1 just north of the border of Nsw in qld and other fella vice versa.

Both work in a winery some 50 km into NSW.

They start at 7 am each day.

Fella in Qld leaves his home at example 5:00 reaching his mate 15 minutes later in NSW at 6:15am
They then drive to work and clock in at 7 am

When they leave work, the 1st fella gets dropped off at 5pm, and number 1 fella arives home 15 minutes later at 4:15pm !!!


HOW F***ING BIZARRE !!! huh

Clippy

Lol, that's very bizarre and I'm now very confused (yes I know that's not difficult!)

Wal10

Yep, and in the town of Tweed Heads the border line runs right down the centre of the road. The shops on one side of the road open and close an hour in front of the shops on the other side, and sometimes have different public holidays too.

It's spooky!!

Vash the Stampede

She's a big country; and with three different timezones plus d/s, weird things are bound to happen!

Timber Floor Au

sheesh i thought we had 5 diff time zones lmao, sorry

Timber Floor Au

Walt my offsider or am i his offsider lol, is off to tweedheads Monday for 10 days of relaxation. Hes an early riser, and a PIG !!!

if he times it right he can make 5am maccyds on lhs of rd and sit their scoffing till other maccyds opens at 5am on other side of rd LMFFAO !!!!!!

Weird huh

Vash the Stampede

LOL, it's only 3 AFAIK. Don't know where you'd be getting the additional 2!

brisnick

tassie has daylight savings already

brisnick

there's actually 6.

WA
NT
QLD
SA (different from NT as it has DST)
NSW/VIC/ACT (different from QLD as they have DST)
TAS different from NSW/VIC/ACT as it has DST at DIFFERENT times.

Peter

At least the States and Territories here uniformally follow (or don't follow) Daylight Saving. In the US, you have individual cities that don't follow it. From memory, Indianapolis doesn't have DST whereas the remainder of Indiana does. I believe Phoenix in Arizona has a similar situation.

brisnick

actually, not exactly right. broken hill in NSW runs off SA timezone, and i know that a number of places in kingscliffe, NSW run off QLD time, ie don't put their clocks forward.....

JAJ

The journey takes 15 minutes regardless.

You 'lose' an hour going from QLD into NSW, so arrive 1 hour 15 mins later (60 mins plus 15), but gain the hour on the way back to arrive 45 minutes 'earlier (60 mins less 15).



Jeremy

JAJ

There is nothing stopping businesses in SE Queensland from operating on NSW business hours if they wish. At least as far as daylight saving is concerned, public holidays are a different matter.

If enough businesses in the Brisbane and SE Queensland area decided to open earlier and shut earlier in summer, then effectively the area would move onto daylight saving even if the government refused to legislate so.


Jeremy

JAJ

I think you can make that seven ... Lord Howe Island is part of NSW and is far enough east to have its own time zone:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=750

If you add in Australia's territories - eg Norfolk Island or Christmas Island, there are at least a couple more.

On the SA/WA border I think there's an 'unofficial' time zone that's 45 minutes ahead of Perth.


Jeremy

Ialibu

You're correct about the SA/WA border "time zone" and having spent several years on Cocos (Keeling) Islands Indian Ocean it was (and probably still is) 1.5 hours behind Perth.

So that's another 2 Time Zones