A solomonic decision. I believe this fits the situation on the ground, assuming that "Asia/Urumqi" and "Asia/Wulumuqi" refer primarily to geo- social units rather than names of time zones. The only thing I am puzzling about is the nomenclature XINST and XINDT. Partial to somethings with XJ but realize you somehow have to accommodate summer time. Thanks, -mld ps1 Will try to provide any more historical information whenever it becomes available to me. ps And for the record, Kashgar in the Uyghur Latin script should be corrected from Ķəxķər to Ⱪəxⱪər. (I don't know how well that will come across in mail readers.) Thanks for setting me straight and for the pointers! On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Arthur David Olson wrote:
Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi + 6:00 PRC XIN%sT # Xinjiang Time + + Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 + 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar time + 5:00 - KAST 1949 Oct 1 + 6:00 PRC XIN%sT # Xinjiang Time + # From Lee Yiu Chung (2009-10-24): # I found there are some mistakes for the historial DST rule for Hong # Kong. Accoring to the DST record from Hong Kong Observatory (actually,