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In recent years Matariki, the Maori New Year, has been celebrated by many New Zealanders, Maori and non-Maori alike. It is becoming an increasingly important part of the New Zealand calendar. Matariki in 2008 begins on 5 June.

More than 100,000 ethnic Chinese who call New Zealand home celebrated the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival on Sunday, 18 February this year.

Educational activities are provided that support the teaching of measuring time.

Parliamentarians' favourite subjects appeared in cartoons. T.K. Sidey campaigned long and hard for the introduction of daylight saving in the early 1900s, and his New Zealand Local Time Bill became a hardy annual in the House.