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Kōrero: Timekeeping

Modern timekeeping

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Modern timekeeping

Through much of the 20th century New Zealanders mostly used wristwatches to tell the time. In the 21st century, younger New Zealanders increasingly take the time from digital displays on cell phones and computer screens.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

by Melanie Lovell-Smith

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Jock Phillips, Timekeeping – Modern times, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/6709/modern-timekeeping (accessed 26 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.