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

["Paul" <format4nz@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm the one in Christchurch NZ yep 2am goes to 3am and 3am reverts to 2am. 
At least we got off to a good start ... the beginning of DST is usually 
marked by a wet, cold southerly change. This time it was fine and 22C.

Paul


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Paul" <format4nz@xxxxxxxxx>; <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [HCDX] RNZI off air on 30th Sept for Antenna Maintenance


> 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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