<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Alas, …Asia/Urumqi does actually remain in error on OlsonDB despite the aspirations of the local population AND official (local) policy (not that I am in any way advocating a role on the list for legal authorities!) TZdata only tracks the time most (Han) Chinese use in Xinjiang, although they themselves would never consider that time as 'local time'.<div>-mld</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As soon as you try to qualify 'legal<br>authorities,' you'll reopen many cans of worms. The PRC will almost<br>certainly attempt to assert authority over Asia/Taipei, and *will*<br>report Asia/Urumqi as an error (the local ethnic minority sets their<br>clocks differently from what the government proclaims; the tzdata<br>tracks both). </span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>