The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday September 7 1942

confusion as to whether the new Time introduced in India with effect from the 1st September is to be rgarded as the Indian Standard Time or whether the Standard Time remains what it was and only the hands of the clock are advanced by one hour. [...] If the new Time is the Standard Time the notification was unnecessary but if it be an improvised Time some Time in advance of the Standard Time by one hour then the notification would mean that the Court would continue to sit and rise at the old hours of the day i.e. [...] Some similar re-adjustment is needed everywhere; and we hope that when the Court re-opens in November for normal business the Hon'ble the Chief Justice will direct a reversion to the old hour of 11 o'clock for the commencment of the sittings. [...] The passages I have reasons to complain of are those in which you draw a distinction beween the " elder " and the " younger " members of the profession in the practice of taking " ex parte adjournments." I do Lot know what is the source of your iformation but certainly it is too much to :lay that the " elder members " are never found to depart from the well-recognised etiquette and traditi [...] It is s matter of common knowledge that the necessity of taking adjournments is far greater in the case of the elder members than it is in the case of others.