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> # From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11):
> # I just now checked Google News for western news sources that talk
> # about China's single time zone, and couldn't find anything before 1986
> # talking about China being in one time zone. (That article was: Jim
> # Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight
> # time--sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05. By the way, this
> # article confirms the tz database's data claiming that China began
> # observing daylight saving time in 1986.
> #
> # From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11):
> # I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated
> # separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't
> # implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near
> # Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a
> # "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
> # ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s).
> #
> # From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
> # There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone in 1949
> # rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a
> # reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with
> # Shanks & Pottenger.