It has nothing to do with timezones and everything to do with distance. Boats powered by magazine editors have only now reached Australia, but since we have the internet we learned of their arrival at the same time they arrived. It makes perfect sense.

In the introductory classes I took they taught us Java and glanced over C. Now I am taking more advanced classes and find myself wondering why they taught us Java and not C since in many cases the class is designed to be done in C. Thus it would have been useful to have been taught C, though I can see why they would want to teach us Java, if we never use it in our later classes it seems to be a waste.