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From TFA >In places where globally standardized time is enforced, some still rebel, like in China, where the entire country is under one time zone, BST (Beijin
by adamjb 5y ago
From TFA
>In places where globally standardized time is enforced, some still rebel, like in China, where the entire country is under one time zone, BST (Beijing Standard Time). In Xinjiang, nearly 2,000 miles west of Beijing, where the sun sometimes sets at midnight according to BST, many Uighur communities use their own form of local solar time.
- YossarianFrPrez 5y agoMy understanding is that India is on one timezone too. One researcher has suggested that introducing timezones could lead to a reduction in fuel emissions via partially offsetting when "peak demand" occurs [1]. [1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264005963_Reducing_Peak_Demand_by_Time_Zone_Divisions https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264005963_Reducing_...
- throw0101a 5y agoThere are complaints about India's single timezone: * https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47168359 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47168359 However, given that India is relatively narrow east-west, the discrepancy between wall time and solar time actually isn't that bad: * https://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/ https://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-...