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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# --- 214 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 --- 1739 unchanged lines hidden --- |