Talk:Time in China

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Information to be added: People's Republic of China in mainland China The advantages and disadvantages of using a unified time zone (Example of advatages: When China sends a rocket to the space, the control center is in Beijing, but the launching center is in Inner Mongolia. A unified time zone facilitates communication.) The lives of the residents in the far western part of China under the unified time zone Which organisation is responsible for managing time service in mainland China? The attempt of adopting daylight saving time in mainland China. Republic of China since 1949 Taiwan was in the Central Standard Time Zone before the Government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan; and Taiwan still remains in the Central Standard Time Zone even after the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan. Some people in Taiwan suggested changing the name "Central Standard Time" to "Taiwan Time". Mention the reason for such a suggestion. Some supporters of Taiwan Independence suggested advancing the time on Taiwan for an hour. Mention the reason behind, and the critism faced by this suggestion. Which organization is responsible for managing the time service on Taiwan? daylight saving time on Taiwan

Contents 1 The map 2 Same time zone 3 Let's write the article together 4 Beijing capital of China... 5 Official full name 6 Todo list 7 (no section title) 8 Taiwan

[edit] The map

It's not a very nice idea to write down creator's name. I thought this scenario had happened before. :-) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 11:29, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

I'd wonder if there's any evidence to back the time zone boundaries. The administrative division borders were not drawn accurately too. Outer Mongolia was simply known as Mongolia as an area. — Instantnood 16:48, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Same time zone

The uniform time zone was not introduced immediately after the communist takeover, but a product in the late 1970s or early 80s. — Instantnood 16:42, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Let's write the article together

I have been preparing this article in my user space. But it seems that there are already a lot of suggestions about the article even though it is not finished. Let's write this article together. It is always easy to criticize. If you have any criticism on this article, don't go around blaming people, but improve it! :-) - Alanmak 00:57, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Beijing capital of China...

"Before that, time varied, while astrological predictions was conducted according to the time standard based on the location of Beijing, then capital of the imperial dynasties."

Beijing only became the capital since the mid-Ming dynasty. It is necessary to specify which time period we are referring to.--Jiang 07:34, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Official full name

Re edits by user:Alanmak: [1] [2] - The full name of the territory is "Hong Kong Special Adminsitrative Region of the People's Republic of China". If anybody has got any evidence that its full name is indeed "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region", instead of the one mentioned above, please kindly present them for discussion. Thanks. (Please respond at talk:District Council of Hong Kong.) — Instantnood 22:10, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

IMO it is not very important to go by the official full name. A convinient and clear name is sufficiant here. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 21:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

In that case simply "Hong Kong" and "Macau" is already adequate. Nevertheless I don't think there's any harm to include their official full names for this particular instance. The problem here is that user:Alanmak has insisted to break each of the official full names into two wikilinks. — Instantnood 17:34, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Todo list

I've added a todo list template to capture the items that are currently commented out or marked by stubs in the article. This will maybe bring more attention to other editors that might be able to contribute -- Bovineone 05:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] (no section title)

I hope I'm doing this right... please forgive me if this ends up in wrong place.

Two comments:

Post-1997, official name of HK is big deal as mainland seems to have problem with connection to colonial administration if using previous name, so probably best to call it by what mainland wants it to be called by.

In HK, time is defined by law. There is also another law that provides for summer time. It is not a policy matter.

-Brett GRAHAM <vr2bg@harts.org.hk> —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.17.196.200 (talk • contribs) 11:20, May 22, 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Taiwan

Taiwan are faced with a problem. If they move to UTC+9, they assert their symbolic independence from China, but they also symbolically revert to Japanese colonialism, although when Taiwan was colonized by Japanese, Taiwan weren't using UTC+9. I think they should move to UTC+8:30. 203.167.171.249 22:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)