 The "Time Act 1974" defines New Zealand Standard Time as 12 hours in advance of UTC.In 2011, the New Zealand dependency of Tokelau moved its time zone forward by 24 hours, by skipping 30 December.Starting in 1909, a member of Parliament, Sir Thomas Kay Sidey annually put forward a bill to advance the clocks an hour from September to the following March and the "Summer Time Act 1927" succeeded.