PS: I have to add: The inclusion on the south-east Guangdong counties with Asia/Urumqi comes from the Shanks data, but I still wonder what evidence exists for this oddity. I attach a visualization with Google maps, having used only those towns from geonames.org which have one of the China zones, plus a non-zero population figure. Asia/Chongqing red, label 4 Asia/Harbin gey, label 1 Asia/Kashgar light blue, label 5 Asia/Shanghai yellow, label 3 Asia/Urumqi light violet, label 2 I also attach the kmz file which can be opened with Google Maps. On 02.02.14 18:42, Alois Treindl wrote:
In the commentary for zone Asia/Urumqi one reads
# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time") # The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai; # the Guangdong counties Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang, # Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi; # east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi; # east Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe, # Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin, # Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami, # Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan.
Question: what is the rationale for having the Guangdong counties listed for this zone?
Guangdong is the province around Hongkong, with latitude around 20n and longitude around 115e.
This is geographically very far away from east Tibet and east Xinjiang, altitude around 40n and loangitude less than 82e.
What is the source for listing Guangdong here? I presume that this is an error.
