time in southeastern Western Australia

[Paul Eggert]

LIVINGSTON Alex <lial at mac.com> writes:

> I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving
> in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis
> of this time zone. My hunch is that it's been around since well
> before 1975. I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades
> ago.

Thanks for mentioning this.  In this case, I'd say a simpler
assumption is that Eucla has been at UTC+0845 since the introduction
of standard time in 1895, and that it has observed DST using Western
Australia rules.  Something like this:

Zone Australia/Eucla     8:35:28 -      LMT     1895 Dec
                         8:45   Aus     CWST    1943 Jul
                         8:45   AW      CWST

It's still just a guess of course...

> it would seem to be a tradition of the observatory, not the "family" that
> lives there, since the caretakers (as far as I know always a childless
> couple) are appointed and employed by some organising body

Yes, you're probably right.  Still, we tend to not bother with single
weather stations and the like (e.g., the weather station on the top of
Mt. Washington in New Hampshire) so we'll probably omit this one for
now.

Anyway, thanks again.  It is nice getting authoritative info like
this.

I did find one copy of the minutes of the ordinary meeting of council
in the Shire of Dundas, which used the phrase "EUCLA TIME" to refer to
the time zone in question.  See
<http://www.dundas.wa.gov.au/council/public_documents/2005%20minutes/3september/file/at_download>.