<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Alois Treindl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alois@astro.ch" target="_blank">alois@astro.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1a3" class="" style="overflow:hidden">I appeal to those readers of the mailing list capable of reading Chinese / mandarin to look for sources which could<br>
- document that multiple timezones where indeed maintained before May 1980 (e.g. railway or airline time tables of that period),<br>
- document the transition to a unified zone in May 1980 (legal text, newspaper articles mentioning the time change)<br>
- document the government decision for a unified timezone in 1949<br>
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My gut feeling is that the unified timezone was introduced in 1949, and that Shanks got it wrong. We need documents to establish that.</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I refer to: <a href="http://bit.ly/1nMKS46">http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/caac56/</a> , which has clean scans of the Civil Aviation Administration of China's 1956 timetable. As far as I can make out from calculating flight times, all places in China that CAAC flew to had the same timezone.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-- <br>Sanjeev Gupta<br>+65 98551208 <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane">http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane</a></div>
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