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Old Oct 18, 2007 | 7:37 am
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steve32
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
The schedules change all the time, not just for daylight saving. Having said that, this year was more disruptive than usual for trans-tasman flight times due to NZ changing the date which daylight saving started, with only a few months notice. Caused many problems with people's calendars/diaries as the software had the normal date of changeover not the new date.
I wasn't aware of that, and it wasn't mentioned by the staff in the Qantas Lounge in Christchurch.

Why did NZ change the date they switch daylight savings? Was it similar to that of the US, to get the perceived advantage started sooner?

Thanks,

Steve
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