Sir Sanford Fleming has a lot to answer for. Dont get me wrong, Im sure he thought he was being all high-tech and avant garde when he came up with his fancy idea on dividing the world into 24 different time zones.<\/p>\n
As a Scottish-born Canadian, he must have been familiar with the European-American issue of midnight Zooming or whatever the late nineteenth century equivalent was. No doubt he thought his sums about time zones being 15 degrees longitude apart because planet earth rotates 15 degrees every hour made sense.<\/p>\n
Well, he clearly hadnt factored in Rally New Zealands return to the WRC calendar and the hour-based head scratching it could mean for a Seattle-based website, manned largely out of the UK reporting on an event in Auckland.<\/p>\n
We know Thursday nights Auckland Domain stage the first competitive WRC action in Aotearoa for a decade kicks off at 1808. Thats great if you happen to be watching the action live downtown in the City of Sails.<\/p>\n
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