in the Chagos Archipelago, to-day, at 12.42 a.m. Greenwich mean time, (corresponding to 3.42 a.m. local time and 10.42 a.m. Sydney time)

MAHE (SEYCHELLES ISLANDS),

June 16.

The flying boat Guba reached here at 12.50 p.m. to-day, local time (6.40 p.m. Melbourne time).

It left Mahe Island in the Seychelles about 5.30 a.m., local time (noun, Syd- ney time),

No. 1264—INDIAN OCEAN.

Seychelles, Mauritius, and Cliagos Archipelago — Standard Time Adopted.

Information, dated 26th October, 1906, has been received from the Colonial Office that, on 1st January, 1907, the standard time of the 60th meridian of East longitude, or 4 hrs. fast on Greenwich Mean Time, will be adopted in the Seychelles, and Mauritius, and that of 75th meridian of East longitude, or 5 hrs. fast on Greenwich Mean Time, in the Chagos Archipelago.

The time ball at Port Louis, Mauritius, will in consequence be dropped at 1h. Om. Os. P.M. Standard Time or Oh. 50m. 12・4s. P.M. Local Mean Time, corresponding to 21h. Om. Os. Greenwich Mean Time, instead of 1h. Om. Os. Local Mean Time as at present.

Approximate position, Port Louis Signal Station, lat. 20° 10' 5" S., long. 57° 29' 0" E.

This Notice affects the following Admiralty Chart:—Port Louis, No. 713. Also, List of Time Signals, 1904, No. 48; and Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, 1904, pages 24, 309, 363, 343.

No. 40.—SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN-MAURITIUS.

Port Louis—New Time-Signal Established.

Subject.—A new time-signal has been established at Port Louis as undermentioned. Position.—On the Port Tower, adjoining the Port Office; lat. 20° 9' 24" S., long. 576 29' 30" E.

Description.—White ball, 4 feet in diameter, on iron framework mast, having a drop of 20 feet Elevation.—54 feet above the ground.

Time of signal.—Dropped daily by electricity, except on Sundays and public holidays, at 21h. 0m. 0s. Greenwich mean time, corresponding to 1h. 0m. 0s. Mauritius standard time.

The ball on Signal Mountain is dropped by hand at the same time.

Remarks.—The ball is hoisted at half-mast 5 minutes before the signal and close up at 2 minutes before. Should the ball not fall correctly at 1h. Om. Os., Mauritius standard time, it will be lowered to half-mast, and at 1h. 58m. 0s. again hoisted close up, and dropped at 2h. 0m. 0s.

This will be repeated each hour until the signal is made correctly. Should the ball not be in working order, letter D flag, International Code, will be hoisted at 1h. Om. Os. A signal is sent from the Observatory every hour to regulate the clock in the Port Tower, and this is repeated one minute later in case the first signal should have been missed. Masters of vessels requiring a chronometer comparison, may obtain telephonic time signals from the Observatory between the hours of 1 and 2 p.m.

Chart affected.—No. 713, Port Louis.

Publications.—List of Time Signals, 1908, page 20; Islands in the South Indian Ocean, 1904, page 309; Supplement, 1908.

Authority.—Director of Royal Alfred Observatory, Mauritius, 28th October, 1908.

“standard time” means the solar time of longitude 60 degrees east of Greenwich;

56.       Words and expressions in an Act relating to time and references in an Act to a point of time shall be read and construed as relating to or as reference to standard time as used in Seychelles, that is four hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time.

On November 30, 1983, at 21:46 local time, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale hit Diego Garcia. It lasted 142 seconds.

It is 2130 I had just finish with the "S's" and was going to cop some well desired sleep when the world when Rockin & Rollin.

one measuring 7.6 on the Richter Scale hit on November 30, 1983, at 21:46 local time and lasted 142 seconds, resulting in a small tsunami which raised wave height in the lagoon to 1.5 metres (4.9 feet)

Steve Snell (Diego Garcia, May 1983 – June 1984)

The Day The Rock Rocked – so said the ubiquitous t-shirts that appeared in the Ship’s Store after the earthquake that struck Diego Garcia on November 30, 1983. The earthquake occurred at 21:46 local time and registered 7.6 on the Richter scale, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the Indian Ocean. It lasted 142 seconds. There were 5800 inhabitants on the island at the time—U.S. Navy personnel, Royal Navy and Marines, and a multi-national force of construction workers, mostly consisting of Filipinos.

standard time means 5 hours earlier than Greenwich mean time or such other time as the Commissioner may, by notice which shall be published in the Gazette, declare to be standard time;

4. In the context of promoting Mauritius as “Une Ile Durable”, Cabinet has agreed to the introduction into the National Assembly of the Time Bill which provides for the introduction of summer time in Mauritius. The summer time period which will be of one hour ahead of the standard time, will be aligned with that in Europe and the United States of America. It will start at two o’clock in the morning on the last Sunday of October and will end at two o’clock in the morning on the last Sunday of March the following year. The summer time for the year 2008 - 2009 will, therefore, be effective as from 26 October 2008 and end on 29 March 2009.

The summer time initiative is expected to produce gains to the country, reduce global carbon emissions, generate substantial savings in terms of energy production and consumption, and at the same time, reduce the electricity peak demand in the evening by some 15 MW.

2. Cabinet has taken note of steps being taken for the introduction of Summer Time, which will start on 26 October 2008 at 02.00 am and end on 29 March 2009 at 02.00 am, viz -

• (i) setting up of a Working Group comprising representatives of the Ministry of Renewable Energy and Public Utilities, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Empowerment, the Central Electricity Board (CEB), the Joint Economic Council and the Maurice Ile Durable Fund to oversee the implementation process;
• (ii) mounting of a national campaign to sensitize the public, private sector operators and public institutions on the benefits of the introduction of Summer Time; and
• (iii) installation by the CEB of electronic metres in selected residential areas, commercial centres and industrial enterprises in different regions of the island to assess the consumption of electricity prior to the introduction of Summer Time and during the Summer Time.

SUMMER TIME – IMPLEMENTATION

(No. B/1473) Mr J. Cuttaree (Second Member for Stanley and Rose Hill) asked the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Renewable Energy and Public Utilities whether, in regard to the Summer Time, he will state if Government will consider discontinuing the implementation thereof by the end of this year.

Reply: I refer the hon. Member to my reply to PQ No. B/1304 on 25 November 2008. I wish to reiterate that the summer time project, which is being implemented on a pilot basis, will end on Sunday 29 March 2009.

The Deputy Prime Minister: Mr Chairperson, I made it quite clear that it was on a pilot basis and when we will have all the facts available to the public and to the House, we will take the decision that is required. So, there has been no decision as whether to continue or to stop. We will look at all the features. Yesterday, I have said it, by the end of the month, we will give all the information and a decision will be taken accordingly. Yesterday, I ended only on the energy side of the Summer Time. The acceptability rate among the population is low and we have no plan to go ahead with it this year. We will submit it to the public. It is a very interesting data on the social acceptability of it, referring on the social aspect, the défavorisés, the age group and so on. It is very detailed and we will submit it by the end of the year. But we have no plan to continue with it in the foreseeable future.

6. Taking into consideration various representations received, Cabinet has agreed not to implement Summer Time.

Europa (22°S, 40°E) and Tromelin Islands (lS°S, 54°E), are two small and flat coralline islands of the western Indian Ocean. Data on the seabirds of these islands involved in kleptoparasitic interactions during the study are summarized in Table 1. On Tromelin, field work was carried out from 8 to 28 June 1994, as most Masked Boobies (MB) and RFB were incubating or rearing a chick. During that period, a frigatebird roost of 12 to 18 nonbreeding birds gathered each evening. Brown Skuas (Catharacta skua), wintering from subantarctic islands, were present in low numbers. On Europa, the study was conducted from 26 April to 2 June 1994 when RFB were not breeding and from 28 November 1994 to 11 January 1995 when most RFB were rearing a chick.

Local time (GMT + 1 hr on Europa, GMT + 2 hr on Tromelin),

The field study was carried out between 26 January and 22 February 1997 on lle de la Possession (46°25'S, 51°45'E), Crozet Islands, located in the southwestern Indian Ocean.

Chicks were weighed to the nearest gram twice a day, at 08:OO and 21:OO h (local time: GMT + 5), using an Ohaus® electronic balance or Pesola® spring balance.

Fieldwork was conducted between 28 January and 9 February 1999 at Pointe Basse (46°21′S, 51°42′E), Possession Island, Crozet Archipelago (local time = UTC + 3 h 20 min, where UTC is the coordinated universal time).

Field work was conducted between the 28 of January and the 9 of February 1999 at Pointe Basse (46°21'S, 51°42'E), Possession Island, Crozet Archipelago (Local Time: UTC+3h20) in a small colony of Crozet shags (13 nests).

We have investigated the activity of giant petrels (Macronectes spp.) in a king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony day and night during the austral winter of 2001 on the Crozet Islands.

in the penguin colony over the 24-h cycle (time = UTC+5)

Field studies were conducted on Europa Island (22.3°
S, 40.3
°E; Local Time = GMT+3) in the Mozambique Channel, 300 km from the coasts of Madagascar and 500 km from the mainland coast of Africa. Europa hosts 2800-3800 pairs of RFB during the breeding season, all located in the dry Euphoriba stenoclada forest of the northern part of the island (LeCorre and Jouventin, 1997). The breeding season starts with the laying/incubation stage in late August and September each year. This is followed by the brooding stage that occurs after egg hatching. The breeding season ends the following year in February-April with the fledging stage, when chicks learn how to fly and thus can leave the nest. Birds were tracked between September and November during incubation and/ or brooding in 2003 (n = 17), 2011 (n = 33), 2012 (n = 31) and 2013 (n = 41). In 2014, they were studied in January-February during fledging (n = 8, the end of the 2013 breeding season).

Pour les districts, de Kerguelen et d’Amsterdam l’heure locale correspond à l’heure métropolitaine + 3 heures l’été et + 4 heures l’hiver ( GMT +5 ).

Pour le district de Crozet, l’heure locale correspond à l’heure métropolitaine + 2 heures l’été et + 3 l’hiver (GMT + 4).

Décalage horaire : GMT + 4 heures (GMT + 5 heures à Amsterdam)

Pour les districts, de Kerguelen et d’Amsterdam l’heure locale correspond à l’heure métropolitaine + 3 heures l’été et + 4 heures l’hiver ( GMT +5 ).Pour le district de Crozet, l’heure locale correspond à l’heure métropolitaine + 2 heures l’été et + 3 l’hiver (GMT + 4)