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  • About daylight saving

    The Department of Internal Affairs administers daylight saving, and its website includes this short history of the evolution of daylight saving in New Zealand.

  • A brief history of time

    This useful overview of the history of time appears on a personal site prepared by Chris Hilder.

  • Time and Frequency Standards Services

    The Measurement Standards Laboratory is responsible for establishing the New Zealand standard time. This page explains how they do this, and how they communicate time throughout New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

    • Landes, D. S. Revolution in time: clocks and the making of the modern world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.

    • Pawson, Eric. ‘Local times and standard time in New Zealand.’ Journal of Historical Geography 18, no. 3 (1992): 278–287.

    • ‘Timekeeping in New Zealand.’ Alpha 36 (October 1983).



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