paulry

The half hour time difference between Sydney and Adelaide

bcworld

It gets stranger. Wait til summer. Then Adelaide will still be half an hour behind Sydney but also half an hour AHEAD of Brisbane - the most easterly capital city!

Jan4kids

It is a rather vast Country.......a few places with rather alot of nothing inbetween

Jan

paulry

Oops, I've walked into this contentious issue again

I've always been used to comparing relative times in terms of whole hours. A half hour multiple (for the want of a better word) seems hardly worth the hassle and scope for confusion. It looks like a half-measure designed to please everyone but satisfying few

bcworld

...I bet you did it on purpose! Anyway....I'm saying no more about it - not a problem for me anymore!

Dorothy

We had that in Canada, too. 1/2 hour time difference between the far eastern provinces and Newfoundland.

upyerfud

Just be glad then you're not in Kathmandu. It's the only capital city with a 15 min time zone (+5.45 GMT).
And the whole of China has only 1 time zone with a larger land area than Australia.

Deancm

Just use UTC and you can't go wrong.

Geelong Gent

And perth about 5 years behind the east coast

upyerfud

Even stranger is the unofficial Central Western Time zone used by a few places on the WA/SA border on the Eyre Highway. 15 mins behind Adelaide time.

MartinLuther

I think India uses a half hour time zone as well.

I presume India and China have official time but also have local time in some places.

paulry

So maybe I shouldn't be hassling with the UK - RSA one/two hour time difference. I do find that during the UK winter time I telephone my dad less often during the week because by the time dinner is over etc and I've had a chance to think of phoning him it's probably too late as he's likely to have already gone to bed. Aus is going to be much worse. SWMBO has no problems with it though. She'd be on the phone 24 hours if the batteries didn't give up on her so timezones are irrelevant once she gets going. Thankfully our calls to Aus are free

ronan_in_Oz

I guess the whole of India has one time zone as well.

moneypenny20

Adelaide being ahead of Brissie in summer defeats me, not that it affects me any, just seems bizarre. Go shopping in NSW is odd too. Leave the house at 10am and get there at 11:15, do what needs doing and get home at 10:40. Life shouldn't be that hard