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Old Mon Oct 01, 2007, 08:37am
Scrapper1 Scrapper1 is offline
Lighten up, Francis.
 
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Originally Posted by mbyron
India straddles two time zones, so they split the difference and put the entire country at half past (it's 7:40 am here and 5:10 pm there). Nepal likes to be different so they're :15 ahead of India.
I've also heard that all of China is one time zone. It's geographically large enough to cover 6 time zones or something like that, but the whole country is on Beijing time. I just looked it up; it's GMT +8 hours.
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