About China time zones

[Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]]

Although folks in Xinjiang who use +8:00 could use Asia/Shanghai to handle current times, Xinjiang and Shanghai had different offsets before 1980.
Separate zones are needed for correct handling of pre-1980 time stamps.

				--ado

-----Original Message-----
From: Luther Ma [mailto:ma.lude.xj at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:33
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Re: About China time zones

I might also say here that adding a new population center in Xinjiang  
that is UTC +8:00 to the tz database (as originally suggested in  
"first pass at Uyghur time" 2009.11.21)  is unnecessary and redundant  
(besides having other potential problems) because the population that  
uses +8:00 uses it precisely because they consider Beijing their  
center (which we, of course, call  Shanghai/Asia). :P

Just my opinion, of course. Once again, I'll accept "first pass" if it  
is to be the last pass.

-mld