Hi, Actually those are legacy timezones which are not used anymore. Now only one time zone is used for whole China, it's now officially called "China Standard Time". And is known widely as "Beijing Time". According to the rule of timezone database, Asia/Shanghai is used to represent "China Standard Time", because Shanghai is(was) the most populous city in China. Correct me if I'm wrong. Regards James Su On 6/24/06, Jesper Norgaard Welen <jnorgard@prodigy.net.mx> wrote:
The chinese timezones don't have much description in the tz database. I am currently trying to make a map of the worlds timezones base on the Olson database, and so I miss some more information about what these timezones cover.
* Asia/Harbin seems to cover the Heilongjiang region, no less no more.
* Asia/Chongqing is a city lying in the Sichuan province, which is huge, so does the timezone represent all of the province?
* Asia/Urumqi covers the Xinjiang province, but represents a definition problem since Kashgar also lies in the far western part of this province, so what does timezone Asia/Kashgar represent? Asia/Urumqi timezone according to the comments in the 'asia' file also covers Tibet, which lies in the Xizang province, that is huge stretching from Kashmir to Myanmar, so I don't know if all of this is covered by the Asia/Urumqi timezone alone.
* Asia/Shanghai covers all the rest of China as I understand it. This is the timezone there was recently a discussion about changing to Asia/Beijing, I believe.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
- Jesper Nørgaard Welen