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Re: Port Chalmers Time Ball
From: David C
Date: 2023 Jun 8, 19:50 -0700
From: David C
Date: 2023 Jun 8, 19:50 -0700
Regarding the time a ball was dropped I found this in the 1929 NZ Nautical Almanac:
"The time ball is dropped [at Lyttelton] at 3 30 pm New Zealand Standard time on Tuesdays and Fridays. (Reported unreliable, 1927)."
100 years later it is unlikely we will ever know the reason for the time and days - unless there is a comment in a newspaper that provides a clue.
David C
