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.
Clock showing current local time now in New Zealand (Auckland Time Zone). New Zealand Standard Time zone is 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+12).The time for the Chatham Islands is 45 minutes in advance of New Zealand Standard Time.ote that New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere and that Summer Time runs from September-April. 1  New Zealand Standard Time GMT+12 starts: First Sunday in April. 2  New Zealand Summer Time GMT+13 starts: Last Sunday in September.