More links and websites
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About daylight saving
The Department of Internal Affairs administers daylight saving, and its website includes this short history of the evolution of daylight saving in New Zealand.
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Time for time
This useful overview of the history of time appears on an educational website that also provides activities and lessons for students and teachers.
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Time and Frequency Standards Services
The Measurement Standards Laboratory is responsible for establishing the New Zealand standard time. This page explains how they do this, and how they communicate time throughout New Zealand.
More suggestions and sources
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Landes, D. S. Revolution in time: clocks and the making of the modern world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.
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Pawson, Eric. ‘Local times and standard time in New Zealand.’ Journal of Historical Geography 18, no. 3 (1992): 278–287.
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‘Timekeeping in New Zealand.’ Alpha 36 (October 1983).