From: Funda Wang [mailto:fundawang@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:14 PM
The timezone we Chinese are using is UTC+8, which is called "The Time of Beijing(TTB)" in China, rather "China Standard Time(CST)",
Thanks. Do you have any references for the TTB abbreviation? I searched for definitions and uses with Google and could not find anything. By far the most common use of "TTB" that I found in China was for the Tibetan Tourist Bureau.
For other municipalities such as Beijing, Tianjin and Chongqing, there are a large area of surburb around them, while the population density of these surbub areas is far more lower than downtown.
Even if you take that into account, Shanghai is still larger than Beijing according to the statistics that I found. My source is <http://www.world-gazetteer.com/>.
And, you may know, someone may take it as political issue the lack of Beijing.
Yes, quite possibly. If that happens, perhaps you can help explain to them that the database also omits many other major capitals, including Washington DC, New Delhi, and Brasilia, and all for the same reason.