It does look odd that there should be such a little island of GMT+6 in the sea of GMT+7, but if the decision about this was restricted to Guandong, then splitting this province in 3 parts the manner it is suggested by astro.com makes more sense. I don't know if there is any way to check if astro.com is right about this claim. The little map I sent anyone can put in your own web page(s) as you want, there is no copyright :-) If you rather want to point to it, like http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/map/China1970.gif or something like that, I could put it up, but I haven't decided to put it up on a full web page with reference information etc. so I think a direct inclusion in your page(s) would be fine. Am I missing something? I wouldn't mind creating maps of other Olson db timezones if anyone is interested, as long as this is not too time-consuming. Regards, - Jesper -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu] Sent: Viernes, 14 de Julio de 2006 12:01 To: Jesper Norgaard Welen Cc: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Chinese timezones 1970 Jesper Norgaard Welen <jnorgard@prodigy.net.mx> writes:
The biggest surprise was that region Guangdong were dived in 3 timezones, a south/west part on GMT+6 (counties Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang, Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, Xinyi)
That is a surprise, and looking at your map it kind of sticks out like a sore thumb. Why would there have been a little island of GMT+6 in the sea of GMT+7, almost next to the GMT+8 region? Anyway, thanks very much for the info; I'll include it in the next proposed tz patch. Will you have a permanent URL for that map? If so, I'd like to include a URL as well.