Talk:China standard time

The dilemma of a uniform time zone

When the US was in the same time zone (when by the way?), was Califonia part of the US already? — Instantnood 21:32, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

Time zones were implemented in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Before then, every location kept its own time. -- ran (talk) 17:17, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

ROC Time

This article taken from a government document says the Republic of China has five time zones for its claimed territories, that is +5.5, +6, +7 + 8 and +8.5. — Instantnood 01:21, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

I suppose we should start an article on Chungyuan Standard Time, or Time zones of the Republic of China. -- ran (talk) 17:17, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Reason of being spurious

Can someone explain (in the article) why the critics who say advancing the time zone by 1 hour would "instead symbolize a reversion to Japanese colonialism" are criticized as being "spurious"? Thanks.—Gniw (Wing) 07:14, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

No, it's not "spurious". Even though Taiwan was on +8 during the Japanese occupation, that doesn't mean advancing Taiwan up to +9 (same as Japan) can't be interpreted as having some symbolic meaning in that direction, especially if advancing Taiwan out of +8 is interpreted as having symbolic meaning anyways. -- ran (talk) 17:17, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Merging this article to "Time zones of China"

I suggest merging this article to Time zones of China. - Alanmak 01:01, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

agreed. go ahead.--Jiang 08:00, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Then what about the time zone articles for Taiwan, HK etc?--Huaiwei 08:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

" The "China" in the title of the article "Time zones of China" technically refers to the Greater China region, which includes mainland China. Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The time zone articles for Hong Kong, Macao should definitely be merged to that article. I am fine with moving the information about the time zone of Taiwan to that article too. But some pan-green extremists on Taiwan would feel very offended when people associate "Taiwan" with "China." - Alanmak 03:10, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Summary style should be adopted for the specific time standards in that article, each with its own main article. — Instantnood 10:52, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Again I ask. Why?--Huaiwei 13:27, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

There should be a separate article for each time standard. Would you consider to merge all articles on time standards of southeast Asian countries into time zones of Southeast Asia? — Instantnood 14:25, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Why should there be a separate article for each "time standard", whatever the later is? If you wan to create time zones of Southeast Asia, no one is going to stop you. But you have two issues to resolve: This article shares a common time zone, while Southeast Asia does not. So on what basis do you want to create that article? Second, while "Chinese Standard Time" shows up results on a google search, "time zones of Southeast Asia" gives zero results. Care to comment?--Huaiwei 14:36, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Check how many results are there for time zones of China. Singapore and Western Australia are in the same time zone as the different jurisdictions in the geographical region of China too. Merge them too? Australia has three time zones in winter and five during summer, why is there only one article? — Instantnood 15:12, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't agree. This article would better serve as the main article for the section on the time standard in mainland China after 1949. — Instantnood 09:57, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Why?--Huaiwei 10:40, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Btw, should we be merging the articles into Chinese Standard Time or Time zones of China?--Huaiwei 14:41, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

We should merge them into Time in China. And yes, I think we should merge them. CharacterZero | Speak 17:24, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I have merged it since no one had taken action for so long. -- Bovineone 05:23, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I’m all for it, following the Australian example… Also, the reason you wouldn’t include, say, Oz, or the Philippines is that, even tho they’re all on UTC +8, they have different standards bodies keeping track of things; there’s no coordinated “Southeast Asian” time (like ASEAN time) that they’re all on. —Wiki Wikardo 18:16, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, obviously i am dum, and completely failed to take into account the extremely polemic nature of the word China (which I interpret in everyday speech to be synonymous with the People’s Republic). The time zones of China article is absurdly nuts, and the section on PRC should be either here or at, like, an article called time zones of the People's Republic of China or something—or, really, maybe here, since time zones (plural) is somewhat inaccurate. Beijing Time? Hammer Time! 18:29, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Also, since it’s been hella long, I’ma take down the merge notice. Wiki Wikardo

Daylight savings time

The article ambiguously starts out by saying that they "currently do not observe daylight saving time." According to native Chinese resident I've talked with, that is incorrect. In fact there is a term for it, "xia shi zhi" which literally means "summer time regime" Can anyone authoritative clarify or correct the statement? -- Bovineone 00:30, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

• Ok, apparently they have discontinued DST in 1991. I'll update the article for clarity. -- Bovineone 04:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Urumchee Time

OK, so I’ll let y’all fight it out/get to the bottom of this, but I inferred from a page that seems pretty recently updated that Ürümqi Time isn't only observed by the Uyghurs. Wiki Wikardo 19:00, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

Chinese Standard Time → China Standard Time — Google hits 283 (most are Wikipedia mirrors) vs. 30900, and "China Standard Time" is the form at least used in Windows OS. Yao Ziyuan 11:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

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