On 12 March 2014 18:39, Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com> wrote:
I refer to: http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/caac56/ , which has clean scans of the Civil Aviation Administration of China's 1956 timetable. As far as I can make out from calculating flight times, all places in China that CAAC flew to had the same timezone.
No need to calculate flight times; the first page http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/caac56/caac56-1.jpg says that all times are given in Peking Standard Time (including times in places such as Moscow or Pyongyang). Since Peking Standard Time obviously does not apply to Moscow or Pyongyang, it's not necessarily valid to deduce from that timetable's use of it that it applied to (say) Kashgar, Lhasa, or Kunming as well. However, the fact that a conversion table is given for timezones for non-Chinese cities but not for Chinese ones does imply that no timezone conversion was deemed necessary for them. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>