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# @(#)asia 8.44 |
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# @(#)asia 8.51 |
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# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of |
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# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. |
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@ -196,6 +196,41 @@ Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah |
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# http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/bangladesh-to-continue-indefinitely-with-advanced-time_100259987.html |
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# </a> |
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# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-12-24): |
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# According to Bangladesh newspaper "The Daily Star," |
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# Bangladesh will change its clock back to Standard Time on Dec 31, 2009. |
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# |
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# Clock goes back 1-hr on Dec 31 night. |
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# <a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=119228"> |
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# http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=119228 |
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# </a> |
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# and |
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# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh05.html"> |
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# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh05.html |
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# </a> |
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# |
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# "...The government yesterday decided to put the clock back by one hour |
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# on December 31 midnight and the new time will continue until March 31, |
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# 2010 midnight. The decision came at a cabinet meeting at the Prime |
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# Minister's Office last night..." |
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# From Danvin Ruangchan (2009-12-24): |
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# ...the news mentions DST will be turned off again 7 months after March |
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# 31st on Oct 31, 2010. |
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# From Arthur David Olson (2009-12-26): |
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# Indeed, "The government will advance again the Banglasdesh Standard |
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# Time by one one hour on March 31 next year by enforcing the Daylight |
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# Saving Time (DST) for seven months. It will continue till October 31 |
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# until further notice." I take that last sentence as the |
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# establishment of a rule. |
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# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
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Rule Dhaka 2009 only - Jun 19 23:00 1:00 S |
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Rule Dhaka 2010 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 - |
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Rule Dhaka 2010 max - Mar 31 23:00 1:00 S |
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Rule Dhaka 2010 max - Nov 1 0:00 0 - |
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# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
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Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 |
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5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? |
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5:30 - IST 1942 Sep |
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6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 |
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6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time |
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6:00 - BDT 2009 Jun 19 23:00 # Bangladesh Time |
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6:00 1:00 BDST |
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6:00 - BDT 2009 |
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6:00 Dhaka BD%sT |
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# Bhutan |
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# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
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# West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke, |
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# Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding, |
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# and Yarkand. |
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# From Luther Ma (2009-10-17): |
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# Almost all (>99.9%) ethnic Chinese (properly ethnic Han) living in |
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# Xinjiang use Chinese Standard Time. Some are aware of Xinjiang time, |
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# but have no need of it. All planes, trains, and schools function on |
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# what is called "Beijing time." When Han make an appointment in Chinese |
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# they implicitly use Beijing time. |
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# |
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# On the other hand, ethnic Uyghurs, who make up about half the |
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# population of Xinjiang, typically use "Xinjiang time" which is two |
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# hours behind Beijing time, or UTC +0600. The government of the Xinjiang |
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# Uyghur Autonomous Region, (XAUR, or just Xinjiang for short) as well as |
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# local governments such as the Urumqi city government use both times in |
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# publications, referring to what is popularly called Xinjiang time as |
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# "Urumqi time." When Uyghurs make an appointment in the Uyghur language |
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# they almost invariably use Xinjiang time. |
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# |
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# (Their ethnic Han compatriots would typically have no clue of its |
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# widespread use, however, because so extremely few of them are fluent in |
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# Uyghur, comparable to the number of Anglo-Americans fluent in Navajo.) |
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# |
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# (...As with the rest of China there was a brief interval ending in 1990 |
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# or 1991 when summer time was in use. The confusion was severe, with |
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# the province not having dual times but four times in use at the same |
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# time. Some areas remained on standard Xinjiang time or Beijing time and |
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# others moving their clocks ahead.) |
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# |
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# ...an example of an official website using of Urumqi time. |
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# |
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# The first few lines of the Google translation of |
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# <a href="http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39"> |
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# http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39 |
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# </a> |
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# (retrieved 2009-10-13) |
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# > Urumqi fire seven people are missing the alleged losses of at least |
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# > 500 million yuan |
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# > |
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# > (Reporter Dong Liu) the day before 20:20 or so (Urumqi Time 18:20), |
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# > Urumqi City Department of International Plaza Luther Qiantang River |
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# > burst fire. As of yesterday, 18:30, Urumqi City Fire officers and men |
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# > have worked continuously for 22 hours... |
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# From Luther Ma (2009-11-19): |
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# With the risk of being redundant to previous answers these are the most common |
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# English "transliterations" (w/o using non-English symbols): |
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# 1. Wulumuqi... |
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# 2. Kashi... |
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# 3. Urumqi... |
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# 4. Kashgar... |
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# ... |
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# 5. It seems that Uyghurs in Urumqi has been using Xinjiang since at least the |
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# 1960's. I know of one Han, now over 50, who grew up in the surrounding |
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# countryside and used Xinjiang time as a child. |
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# 6. Likewise for Kashgar and the rest of south Xinjiang I don't know of any |
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# start date for Xinjiang time. |
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# |
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# Without having access to local historical records, nor the ability to legally |
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# publish them, I would go with October 1, 1949, when Xinjiang became the Uyghur |
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# Autonomous Region under the PRC. (Before that Uyghurs, of course, would also |
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# not be using Beijing time, but some local time.) |
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Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar |
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5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time |
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5:00 - KAST 1980 May |
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# From Lee Yiu Chung (2009-10-24): |
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# I found there are some mistakes for the historial DST rule for Hong |
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# Kong. Accoring to the DST record from Hong Kong Observatory (actually, |
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# I found there are some mistakes for the...DST rule for Hong |
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# Kong. [According] to the DST record from Hong Kong Observatory (actually, |
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# it is not [an] observatory, but the official meteorological agency of HK, |
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# and also serves as the official timing agency), there are some missing |
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# and incorrect rules. Although the exact switch over time is missing, I |
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Tom Lane
16 years ago