Updated April 06, 2017. People are often startled by their first encounter with a house centipede. I often receive photos of them with the question, What the heck is this thing I found in my house?!. Scary as it may seem, the house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata, is really quite harmless.
Current local time in Christchurch New Zealand is 12:34 PM NZST. Today is Thursday, August 10, 2017 in Christchurch.
From September 26 (when New Zealand begins Daylight Savings) to November 7 (when New York ends Daylight Savings), and from March 14 (when Daylight Savings begins in New York) to April 4 (when it ends in New Zealand), New Zealand is 17 hours ahead of New York.