They keep reminding folks in the various lectures on the ship that
Australia is a very large place, but it only has 22 million folks. Most live within one hour of the ocean.
I was curious about our 30 minute time change last night (we had one other island where this occurred). Time zones in the contiguous US are one hour
apart. That’s not true in
Australia. It also gets really
complicated because not every area follows daylight savings time (note sun in the graphic below).
The west coast is +8 hours ahead of Greenwich
time. The center of the nation is +9.5 hours (except
in areas of daylight savings), and the east cost is +10 hours (+11 in areas of
daylight savings).
You’ll note how this impacts time as the ship reaches the next
ports below. The graphic comes from my iPad
time clock.
My body clock is confused!
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| Current time of upcoming ports (L), time differences from Greenwich (top R), US/Australia size comparison (bottom R) |
