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> For 30 years, Queensland has been in a different time zone to NSW Ridiculous! That sounds like Portugal and Spain. If one lives in Porto and travels just nor
by personlurking 8y ago
> For 30 years, Queensland has been in a different time zone to NSW
Ridiculous! That sounds like Portugal and Spain. If one lives in Porto and travels just north of the border to Vigo (Galicia), it's an hour ahead. Apparently it was done by Franco who wanted to be on the same time as Hitler [1]
1 - https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=244995264 https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=244995264
- jpatokal 8y agoWell, not so ridiculous. Queensland extends for almost 3,000 km north to south, and they really don't need DST up in the tropics. (Although the vast bulk of the population is concentrated at the non-tropical end.) That said, I live in NSW and run a team that needs to maintain a 24/7 rotation, and dearly wish they would nuke DST once and for all worldwide: Oct/Nov and Mar/Apr are a sequence of steady pain as various offices move by an hour in one direction or another, each on different weeks of course.