New Year New Zealand Time

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New year new zealand time. When settlers started coming to new zealand from britain and other parts of europe during the mid 1800s they had to adjust to observing christmas and new year s day in the middle of summer rather than the winters they were used to. In 1941 during world war ii clocks were set forward 30 minutes increasing new zealand s offset from gmt to 12 hours. New zealand mean time adopted on november 2 1868 was 11 hours and 30 minutes ahead of greenwich mean time gmt.

27 september 2020 1 hour forward. The time change was made permanent by the standard time act 1945. New year s day is also in the middle of the school summer holidays in new zealand.

In 1974 2 years after coordinated universal time utc was set as the international time standard new zealand standard time nzst was officially defined as utc 12 in the time act 1974. On 2 november 1868 new zealand officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally and was the first country to do so about fifteen years before any other. 05 april 2020 1 hour back.

Currently new zealand daylight time nzdt utc 13. It was based on longitude 172 30 east of greenwich 11 1 2 hours ahead of greenwich mean time gmt. For sports fans traditionally the new zealand national cricket team known throughout the country as the black caps play a one day international cricket game in queenstown during the day on 31st december.

New zealand time zones and time zone map with current time in the largest cities. This standard was known as new zealand mean time nzmt. This is the best time to visit places such as hawke s bay central otago especially arrowtown lake tekapo and the wider mackenzie country area where you can enjoy new zealand s breathtaking autumnal colours april s long fine spells and general lack of wind also make it a popular month for hiking.

New zealand daylight time nzdt 1300 utc utc gmt is 18 27 on monday december 7 2020. Standard time new zealand standard time nzst utc 12 starts april 4 2021. Chatham daylight time gmt 13 45.