first pass at Uyghur time

Luther Ma ma.lude.xj at gmail.com
Sun Nov 22 17:26:24 UTC 2009


A solomonic decision. I believe this fits the situation on the ground,  
assuming that "Asia/Urumqi" and "Asia/Wulumuqi" refer primarily to geo- 
social units rather than names of time zones.

The only thing I am puzzling about is the nomenclature XINST and  
XINDT. Partial to somethings with XJ but realize you somehow have to  
accommodate summer time.

Thanks,
-mld

ps1 Will try to provide any more historical information whenever it  
becomes available to me.

ps And for the record, Kashgar in the Uyghur Latin script should be  
corrected from Ķəxķər to Ⱪəxⱪər. (I don't know how well that  
will come across in mail readers.) Thanks for setting me straight and  
for the pointers!

On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Arthur David Olson wrote:

>  Zone	Asia/Urumqi	5:50:20	-	LMT	1928 # or Urumchi
> + 			6:00	PRC	XIN%sT # Xinjiang Time
> +
> + Zone	Asia/Kashgar	5:03:56	-	LMT	1928
> + 			5:30	-	KAST	1940 # Kashgar time
> + 			5:00	-	KAST	1949 Oct 1
> + 			6:00	PRC	XIN%sT # Xinjiang Time
> +
>  # From Lee Yiu Chung (2009-10-24):
>  # I found there are some mistakes for the historial DST rule for Hong
>  # Kong. Accoring to the DST record from Hong Kong Observatory  
> (actually,





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