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Time in New Zealand is divided by law into two standard time zones.The main islands use New Zealand Standard Time (NZST), 12 hours in advance of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) / military M (Mike), [1] while the outlying Chatham Islands use Chatham Standard Time (CHAST), 12 hours 45 minutes in advance of UTC / military M^ (Mike-Three).
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [ 1] This is a list of time zones from release 2024a of the tz database. [ 2]
New Zealand. / 41.300°S 174.783°E / -41.300; 174.783. New Zealand ( Māori: Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island ( Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island ( Te Waipounamu )—and over 700 smaller islands.
25 September: Rev Marsden plants 100 vines, the first grapes grown in New Zealand. 4 November: Chiefs Hongi Hika and Rewa sell 13,000 acres (5260 hectares) at Kerikeri to the Church Missionary Society for 48 felling axes. 1820. 3 May: At Kerikeri, Reverend John Butler uses a plough for the first time in the country.
Date and time notation in New Zealand [refresh] Full date 14 August 2024 All-numeric date 2024-08-14 14/08/2024 Time 08:12 8:12 am Date and time notation in New Zealand most commonly records the date using the day-month-year format (14 August 2024), while the ISO 8601 format (2024-08-14) is increasingly used for all-numeric dates, such as date of birth. The time can be written using either the ...
In 1868, New Zealand was the first country in the world to establish a nationwide standard time. [ 15 ] A telegraph cable between New Zealand's two main islands became the instigating factor for the establishment of "New Zealand time".
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+8), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−5), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−6), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in an earlier ...
This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during standard time or year-round. The main purpose of this page is to list the current standard time offsets ...