On 2006-02-09, Robert Elz wrote:
it is almost inconceivable to imagine a city being able to operate with two different timezones in it.
Yet we make a habit of this in Australia. The city on the border of Queensland and New South Wales, known as Coolangatta in Qld and Tweed Heads in NSW, consistently spends half the year with multiple time zones (as Qld does not do DST and NSW does). The city on the border of NSW and Victoria, known as Albury in NSW and Wodonga in Vic, suffers less from this absurdity as NSW and Vic both observe DST. However, on years when sporting events or other similarly-important perturbations in the natural order make it expedient, it's quite possible for the change to or from DST to occur on different dates. (Yes, I know they are separate cities in legal terms. But for the people living there, they are not. I've lived in both of them and know from practical experience how maddening the variant clocks can be.) Greg