1# @(#)asia 8.21
2# <pre>
3
4# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
5# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
6# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
7
8# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
9#
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224# boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two
225# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border,
226# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are
227# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege
228# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6
229# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two
230# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data.
231
232# From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11):
233# I just now checked Google News for western news sources that talk
234# about China's single time zone, and couldn't find anything before 1986
235# talking about China being in one time zone. (That article was: Jim
236# Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight
237# time--sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05. By the way, this
238# article confirms the tz database's data claiming that China began
239# observing daylight saving time in 1986.
240#
241# From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11):
242# I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated
243# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't
244# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near
245# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a
246# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
247# ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s).
248#
249# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
250# There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone in 1949
251# rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a
252# reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with
253# Shanks & Pottenger.
254
255# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
256# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
257# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin
258Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
259 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time
260 8:00 - CST 1940
261 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May
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2# <pre>
3
4# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
5# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
6# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
7
8# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
9#
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224# boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two
225# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border,
226# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are
227# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege
228# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6
229# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two
230# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data.
231
232# From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11):
233# I just now checked Google News for western news sources that talk
234# about China's single time zone, and couldn't find anything before 1986
235# talking about China being in one time zone. (That article was: Jim
236# Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight
237# time--sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05. By the way, this
238# article confirms the tz database's data claiming that China began
239# observing daylight saving time in 1986.
240#
241# From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11):
242# I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated
243# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't
244# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near
245# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a
246# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
247# ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s).
248#
249# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
250# There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone in 1949
251# rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a
252# reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with
253# Shanks & Pottenger.
254
255# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
256# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
257# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin
258Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
259 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time
260 8:00 - CST 1940
261 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May
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