[Magdalen] Time Zones.

[Lesley de Voil]

Not sure just whether you are referring to TV programs, or official time of day, David.   We have official zones for  Eastern Standard Time, Eastern Daylight Time (applies during summer months to some , not all, eastern states), Central Time, and Western Australia Time. New Zealand is definitely another country - they are 2 hours ahead of Eastern Australia time usually.
If you count in Australian administered Territories, there are actually nine different time zones!  New Zealand has four of these zones, although the two main islands keep the same hour. Despite the number of NZers in Australia, those that are left are still two hours ahead!
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> On 13 Aug 2016, at 05:30, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> It's always dark on the fabulous beaches of Rio when the USA  newscasters
> report on the Olympics.  I therefore just checked the time zones  and
> as I thought, they are 2 hours ahead of us.  Part of Brazil is three  hours
> ahead, but not Rio.
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> It is interesting to see what the various nations have done with the  time
> zones.  Some of the gerrymandering makes the fudging of time  zones
> in the USA pale in comparison.
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> For example, China just ignores time zones entirely, and the whole
> country is in one time zone (there should be four zones).   Australia
> is in one zone only, and New Zealand, that should be two hours ahead
> of Australia, opts for the same zone as the Aussies.
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> And I thought it was a little brazen for the Detroit automakers to  have
> conspired to keep the Motor City in sync with Wall Street!
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> David S.  -   Who can't believe it's been 53 years since  "The Girl from 
>                    Ipanema."