This article needs additional citations for verification. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands uses UTC+06:30 year round, Christmas Island uses UTC+07:00 year round, while Norfolk Island uses UTC+11:00 as standard time and UTC+12:00 as daylight saving time. Daylight saving time is not currently used in Western Australia, the Northern Territory or Queensland. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory use Eastern Standard Time. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. South Australia switches to the Australian Central Daylight Saving Time ( ACDT UTC+10:30).
New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Jervis Bay Territory and the Australian Capital Territory switches to the Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time ( AEDT UTC+11:00), and.Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used between the first Sunday in October and the first Sunday in April in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: Time is regulated by the individual state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). NSW, TAS, Macquarie Island, VIC, ACT, JBTĪustralia uses three main time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time ( AEST UTC+10:00), Australian Central Standard Time ( ACST UTC+09:30) and Australian Western Standard Time ( AWST UTC+08:00). Further information on daylight saving time: Daylight saving time in Australia