In today's weather forecast we are expecting a fine and clear day with southwesterlies.

It's a three-clothing and one-windproof layer day today with a high of 21 and an overnight low of 9 degrees. Humidity is 66 per cent.

High tide is at 2.40pm and low tide at 9pm. There's a sea swell of 0.2m and sea temperature is 17 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 7.46pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 8 and 10pm.

This day in NZ history in 1868 New Zealand became the first country to adopt a standard time. On 2 November 1868, New Zealand discarded its numerous local times and became the first country to regulate its time in relation to Greenwich mean time (GMT).

In 1942 a New Zealand Division led a breakthrough at El Alamein in Egypt. The 2nd New Zealand Division opened the way for British armour, allowing the Allies to make a breakthrough and push the Axis forces in North Africa into retreat.

In world history on this day in 1570 a tidal wave in the North Sea destroyed the sea walls from Holland to Jutland. More than 1,000 people were killed.

In 1903 London's Daily Mirror newspaper was first published. In 1914 Russia declared war with Turkey. In 1920 the first radio broadcast in the United States was made from Pittsburgh. In 1936 the first high-definition public television transmissions began from Alexandra Palace in north London by the BBC.

In 2000 the first resident crew arrived at the International Space Station.

Today is the birthday of Harlow Shapley, the astronomer who discovered the Sun is not at the center of the galaxy. Born in 1885, he once said "The freely roaming dinosaurs, I like to remember, had no plumbing.”

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