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This is the only time zone in the world that uses 30-minute DST transitions. AU: Australia/Melbourne: Victoria Canonical +10:00 +11:00: AEST: AEDT: australasia AU: Australia/North: Link +09:30 +09:30: ACST: backward Link to Australia/Darwin: AU: Australia/NSW: Link +10:00 +11:00: AEST: AEDT: backward Link to Australia/Sydney: AU: Australia ...
During the Western Australian trial of DST from 2006 to 2009, this area also sets its clocks ahead one hour during summer. This time zone is not officially recognised, but is marked by official road signs. It is tracked in the tz database, the record of time zones for computers, as "Australia/Eucla". [24]
In Western Australia, four referendums in 1975, 1984, 1992 and 2009 have rejected DST. [20] In 2006, the Parliament of Western Australia approved a three-year daylight saving trial to be followed by a referendum to decide
Time in Antarctica: Australia: 9: UTC+05:00 – Heard and McDonald Islands UTC+06:30 – Cocos (Keeling) Islands UTC+07:00 – Christmas Island UTC+08:00 – Western Australia, Indian Pacific railway when travelling between Port Augusta, South Australia and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia)
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
UTC+08:45 is used as a time in Australia (Central Western Time, or CWT). It is used by some roadhouses along the Eyre Highway in Western Australia and South Australia . Although not legally defined by the state or federal governments, [ 1 ] the boundaries where it commences and ends are clearly understood and recognised by the Shire of Dundas ...
Parliament House is located overlooking St Georges Terrace and Mitchell Freeway, and is at the centre of the Parliament precinct.Also in the precinct is Dumas House, the original Perth Observatory, the second location of Hale School, Solidarity Park, Edith Dircksey Cowan Memorial, and the Constitutional Centre of Western Australia.
The Perth Cultural Centre is also home to the Western Australian Museum, State Library of Western Australia, State Records Office, and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). Western Australia has a public library system , with libraries in every local government area (although some public libraries are shared school libraries).