<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</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="gmail-:1ya" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH gmail-m15959ab54164ace3">Currently the commentary for Asia/Urumqi says that it covers "Xinjiang time, used by many in western China". Some people in western China use +06, some use +08 (Asia/Shanghai in our database), and the geographical boundary between the two sets of uses is indistinct.<span class="gmail-"></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My understanding, from speaking to people who have stayed in the region, is that the distinction is highly ethnic and linguistic (Han/non-Han). People are aware of both time zones, and choose either +0800 or not if they are speaking Mandarin, or not. Hotel receptionists will, when speaking to foreign guests, explicitly specify timezone, as will local business contacts. There is no real geographical line here.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">May I refer you to: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_%26_the_City">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_%26_the_City</a> ?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-- <br>Sanjeev Gupta<br>+65 98551208 <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane</a></div></div>
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