Re: Daylight saving time

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <810ku5$87t$1@news1.mpx.com.au> "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.umpires.com> writes:
>From: "Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.umpires.com>
>Subject: Re: Daylight saving time
>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:37:33 +1100

>Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au> wrote in message
>3833CA7E.41FCFF66@enternet.com.au">news:3833CA7E.41FCFF66@enternet.com.au...
>>
>>
>> Dave Proctor wrote:
>> >
>> > Fred Morley <fredendi@idl.net.au> wrote in message
>> > 942833598.250353@ns.idl.com.au">news:942833598.250353@ns.idl.com.au...
>> > > We have daylight saving time ion the East coast of
>Australia.NSW,Victoria.
>> > > Nothing stops for changover times,in actual times the trains arrive 1
>hour
>> > > early one way and 1 hour late the other way,Oly confusing if you cross
>the
>> > > border north into Queensland from New South Wales.
>> >
>> > No - the changeover affects the whole country.
>>
>> Daylight saving operates only in some States - NSW, ACT, Vic, Tas and SA.
>It
>> does not operate in Qld, NT or WA.

>But the changeover affects the whole country - the Indian Pacific that left
>Adelaide on Friday 29 October, to arrive in Perth on Sunday 31 October,
>would be affected.

>The Brisbane XPT that left Sydney on Saturday 30 October to arrive in
>Brisbane on Sunday 31 October would be affected.

>So it affects the whole country.

>> My only experience of this was some years ago on the Western Mail in NSW
>(That
>> shows how many years ago.  I travelled overnight from Sydney to Parkes in
>a BAM
>> sleeper.  When the booking was made the computer alerted the clerk to be
>aware
>> of the changeover to Daylight saving.  The effect was that I arrived one
>hour
>> late in Parkes.
>>
>> From this information, you should just about be able to calculate the
>exact date
>> on which I travelled - computer bookings and mail trains didn't co-exist
>for too
>> many years I'd say.

>ABout 6 years, I believe - I remember catching one in the late 80's on a
>computer booking, and then again in the early 90's.

Weren't mail trains abolished in '89?

Dave Malcolm

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