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While I have worked down in Antarctica (Palmer and McMurdo Stations), I never got the chance to work at South Pole Station, but I have many friends who have, to answer your question the time zone they use at South Pole Station is the same as New Zealand (GMT+12).
The reason for that is purely logistically, since the South Pole can be any time zone it wanted, but all of the contract workers and scientists go through McMurdo (Mactown) to get to Pole and McMurdo is also GMT+12, so it just makes things easier!
Obviously at the South Pole, there is one long "6-month day" from September 22nd or 23rd to March 20th and long "6-month night" from March 20th and September 22nd or 23rd.
A friend of mine used to fly C-130s for the Alaska Air National Guard - one flight took him close to the magnetic north pole, and he asked the navigator to plot a slight course deviation so they could say they'd been there. The navigator refused, because "I know you're going to ask for bearings, just to force me to say "due South" to everything."
A friend of mine used to fly C-130s for the Alaska Air National Guard - one flight took him close to the magnetic north pole, and he asked the navigator to plot a slight course deviation so they could say they'd been there. The navigator refused, because "I know you're going to ask for bearings, just to force me to say "due South" to everything."
I heard from some full-times with Leidos who currently has the main part of the Antarctic Support Contract (ASC), that this upcoming summer season will be like a winter season due to COVID-19 and they won't be flying any LC-130's down to the Ice, just using C-17's to get to people down to Mactown and Twin Otters and Baslers from Kenn Borek Air out of Canada to get people to and from Pole, since C-17's are too heavy to land at Pole and they don't have skis (they usually use LC-130's to get people to Pole from McMurdo).
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