Attention should be paid to adjusting watch time in Australia through the provinces, because Australia is vast, divided into three time zones, and every year in October and April, New, Victoria, South Australia and Tata adjust daylight saving time. That said, by the end of BST on April 3 this weekend, friends in New York, Victoria, South Australia and Tata will remember to dial their watches back for an hour, and the time difference between these areas and China will change from the current three hours to two hours.
Three time zones
Australia is divided into three major time zones by geographical longitude of states and territories:
- Western Australia is located in the eastern eighth district, 8 hours Greenwich time, when the zone is called Australia-west standard time (Australian Western Standard Time,AWST)
- Central Australia includes the Northern Territory and South Australia, 9.5 hours Greenwich time, when the zone is known as the Australia-China Standard time (Australian Central Standard Time,ACST).
- Eastern Australia includes the Capital Territory, Queensland, New State, Victoria and Tasmania, 10 hours Greenwich time, when the zone is known as (Australian Eastern Standard Time,AEST (Australia East Standard time).
Careful friends will find that official Australian documents generally use AEST Australia East Standard time because the capital Canberra is in this time zone.
It can be seen that there are three different times in different parts of Australia at the same time. Take East Australia at 9: 00 a.m., in Northern Territory and South Australia at 8: 30 a.m., and Western Australia at 7: 00 a.m.
daylight-saving time
In addition to the time zone, keep an eye on Daylight savings time (Daylight saving time,DST), which starts in October and ends in April. But daylight saving time is not used throughout Australia.
- States and territories using daylight saving time: South Australia, New Zealand, Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania
- States and territories that do not use Daylight time: Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland
That is, after the start of daylight saving time, Australia is divided into five different times.
There are five different times after using daylight saving time
States and territories that use daylight saving time start daylight saving each year on the first Sunday of the October by dialing the clock forward one hour to three in the morning at 2: 00 a. M.
How to tune the table between the start and the end of daylight saving time
Controversy over daylight saving time
The dispute over whether daylight saving time is specifically decided by the states and territories goverment, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, the three large states and territories do not apply daylight saving time. In history, Queensland and Western Australia held several referendums on whether daylight saving time should be introduced, each time rejected by more than half of the negative. It is argued that daylight saving time increases the amount of time people spend using the day, and also increases the amount of time the skin is exposed to sunlight, thereby increasing the risk of developing skin cancer. People in different regions also have very different views on daylight saving time. People in northern and western parts of Kunzhou oppose daylight saving time, while people in the south-east support it.