The difference in time between England and the various parts of Eastern and Southern Africa, with which the two of them were concerned, was usually large enough-even when in the case of Johannesburg it was little more than an hour for no one outside the department to worry about the delay in the delivery of a message:
Euren ardurapean Afrikako ekialdeko eta Hegoafrikako eskualde batzuk zeuden. Ingalaterrako orduaren eta Afrikako eremu zabal hartako orduaren arteko aldea (ordubete baino zertxobait gehiagokoa, Johannesburgoren kasuan bezala) aski handia zen zerbitzutik kanpoko inor ez larritzeko, mezua berandu iritsiagatik.