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(Australian) Central Daylight Saving Time (ACDT or CDST) – UTC+10:30, in South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales (Australian) Eastern Daylight Saving Time (AEDT or EDST) – UTC+11:00, in New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, and Tasmania; During the usual periods of DST, the three standard time zones in Australia become five zones.
The date and time in Australia are most commonly recorded using the day–month–year format (13 February 2025) and the 12-hour clock (7:21 pm), although 24-hour time is used in some cases. For example, some public transport operators such as V/Line [1] and Transport NSW [2] use 24-hour time, although others use 12-hour time instead.
Australian time zones during daylight-saving time (from southern spring to southern autumn). Daylight saving time (DST) is currently observed in the Australian states of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria, as well as the Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory and Norfolk Island.
In Australia, the number 1194 was the speaking clock in all areas. The service started in 1953 by the Post Master General's Department, originally to access the talking clock on a rotary dial phone, callers would dial "B074", during the transition from a rotary dial to a DTMF based phone system, the talking clock number changed from "B074" to 1194.
In 2006, the Constitution Amendment Pledge of Loyalty Act 2006 No 6, [92] was enacted to amend the NSW Constitution Act 1902 to require Members of the New South Wales Parliament and its Ministers to take a pledge of loyalty to Australia and to the people of New South Wales instead of swearing allegiance to Elizabeth II her heirs and successors ...
A unit of time is any particular time interval, used as a standard way of measuring or expressing duration. The base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), and by extension most of the Western world , is the second , defined as about 9 billion oscillations of the caesium atom.
The time zone map of Australia during summer time needs to be reverted back to the old one created in 2005, since Western Australia no longer observes the practice of daylight saving. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris SSIE1 ( talk • contribs ) 04:52, 21 June 2009 (UTC) [ reply ]
New South Wales is the second-largest wine-producing state in Australia, accounting for 30 percent of the A$5 billion Australian wine industry In 1994 the various wine regions within New South Wales agreed there was a need to form a peak lobby group to act as the conduit between industry and the New South Wales Government, and to represent New ...