Re: [HCDX] RNZI off air on 30th Sept for Antenna Maintenance

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul (which Paul are you?),

I was going by timeanddate.com which has a handy table of DST dates.

Not to quibble, but the NZ government says otherwise at
http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Index?OpenDocument

``Daylight Saving [sic] Time
>From this year, Daylight Saving will run for a period of 27 weeks. It now
commences from the last Sunday in September, when 2.00am becomes 3.00am, and
ends on the first Sunday in April the following year, when 3.00am becomes
2.00am. 

Daylight Saving will commence on Sunday 30 September 2007 (when clocks are put
forward one hour), and end on 6 April 2008, (when clocks are put back one
hour).``

So it started at 1400 UT Saturday, i.e. at 2 am local time Sunday, clox were
reset to read 3 am. 

Perhaps you can answer this: does ``NZST`` on the RNZI notice mean NZ Standard
Time, or NZ Summer Time? 73, Glenn Hauser

--- Paul <format4nz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Daylight saving actually started at 3AM on Sunday 30th September ...... or 
> if you like at 1500 UTC on Saturday 29th September ...
> 
> Paul
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 8:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [HCDX] RNZI off air on 30th Sept for Antenna Maintenance
> 
> 
> > Wrong, wrong, wrong. RNZI is royally mixed up yet again. Sept 30 is 
> > Sunday, not
> > Saturday. Apparently they are also not aware that summer time already 
> > started
> > UT Sept 29 at 1400, so local time is UT +13. That would convert to 
> > 2135-0500
> > UT, presumably Saturday into UT Sunday. The incorrect UT conversion should 
> > have
> > read 2235-0600. Experience also shows that such predicted downtimes are 
> > often
> > only approximate and it may be missing beyond these times. Always beware 
> > of
> > quoting RNZI website without explicatory, corrective notes such as these 
> > (Glenn
> > Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
> >
> > --- Alokesh <alokeshgupta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> >From RNZI website.......
> >>
> >> Saturday 30 Sep Off-Air for Antenna Maintenance
> >> 27 Sep, 2007 22:05 UTC
> >>
> >> Saturday 30 September, we regret further antenna repairs are required.
> >> Transmission on short-wave will suspended between 1035 - 1800 NZST
> >> [1035-0600 UTC]
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Alokesh Gupta
> >> New Delhi, India.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
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