On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:48:11PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai east China - Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, etc. CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin Heilongjiang CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chongqing central China - Gansu, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc. CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi Tibet & most of Xinjiang CN +3929+07559 Asia/Kashgar southwest Xinjiang
BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official Chinese names for these locales (before 1949): (Chinese names in GB2312 encoding in parentheses) Asia/Harbin Changbai Time (长白时区) = "Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area Asia/Shanghai Zhongyuan Time (中原时区) = "Central plain Time" Asia/Chongqing Long-shu Time (陇蜀时区) = "Long-Shu Time"; I guess Long and Shu are two historic names of that area? :-) forgot where Long is, but Shu is in the area of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". :-) Asia/Urumqi Xin-zang Time (新藏时区) = "Xinjiang-Tibet Time" Asia/Kashgar Kunlun Time (昆仑时区) I'm subscribed to quite a few Chinese mailing lists. I will try to ask around to see if anyone knows more about these time zones. :-) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling 霍东灵 ThizLinux Laboratory <anthony@thizlinux.com> http://www.thizlinux.com/ Debian Chinese Project <foka@debian.org> http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp! http://www.olvc.ab.ca/