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Old Mon Oct 01, 2007, 10:28am
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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
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.
That's true (they should have 5 time zones). Very convenient for the central bureaucrats in Beijing, but not so nice when you get up in Lhasa at 7 am and the sun still thinks it's 2 am.
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