Sept. 23, 2013
5:31 a.m.
Guy Harris wrote:
If there were people there who *did* keep standardized time between 1868-11-02 and {whatever the appropriate date is for the establishment of the station}, *and* they kept New Zealand time, then I *would* say the new entry is more accurate.
Certainly people kept standardized time at that location before McMurdo was officially established, and even before the arbitrary cutoff of 1956-01-01 00:00:00 UT that was in the 2013d entry. Most likely the 1955 advance party kept New Zealand time, so in that (limited) sense the 2013e entry is more accurate than the 2013d was. (Not that any of this matters to any tz end users....)