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diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/asia b/share/zoneinfo/asia index b72cfc8..656a5b6 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/asia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 8.20 +# @(#)asia 8.21 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -229,6 +229,28 @@ Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D # (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two # counties are mistakes in the astro.com data. +# 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. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) |
