Talk:Time in Antarctica

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map vs table[edit]

The map and the table to not agree. Which is correct? --Lasunncty (talk) 09:38, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The map is wrong on the Vostok station at 78°S 106°E (106°E corresponds to 7 h 4 min). It is in red=UTC+0 zone in the map and +06:00 in the tz database. --BIL (talk) 15:20, 29 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Las bases de Argentina usan la hora argentina.--Nerêo (talk) 18:42, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Troll Station"?[edit]

I suspect a troll, but I won't delete just in case.71.29.7.162 (talk) 23:54, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's a real place, see Troll (research station). +mt 09:13, 4 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Standard Time and DST are the wrong way around for Troll Station and Casey Station[edit]

According to dateandtime.com, Casey station has UTC+08:00 in the winter (standard time) and UTC+11:00 in the summer (with DST), instead of the other way around as the table in the "TZ database" section of the article would suggest.

The same issue happens with Troll Station, however this one is more complicated, because the country that administrates it (Norway) is in the northern hemisphere, which means the standard (winter) time in Troll Station is the "Central European Summer Time" (UTC+02:00), possibly leading to the confusion. This also means that Troll Station has backwards DST, shifting clocks back 2 hours in the summer to get UTC±00:00, which is not reflected in the article. Andersyu31415 (talk) 15:38, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How to modify in the table[edit]

Hi I couldn't modify in case of the table Casey Station not observed DST his time zone UTC+8 all year round Yazid6 (talk) 08:29, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Errors[edit]

> For practical purposes time zones are usually based on territorial claims

This is false. There is no governing body that declares time zones for Antarctica, and territorial claims do not enter into it. Stations would prefer to use the time zone of their home headquarters, but as a practical matter it's often more convenient to use the time zone of the primary logistical source, e.g. New Zealand TZ for McMurdo and South Pole.

> In most areas south of 80 degrees latitude, Coordinated Universal Time is assumed despite the limited presence of clocks.

False because there's nobody there to make that decision, and no particular declaration that 80S is a dividing line. Data collection systems and science projects will almost always use UTC (anywhere in the world), and Antarctic stations may use UTC for coordination purposes, but there's no requirement to do so, and no magic at 80S. Sciencemercenary (talk) 16:38, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]