Funda Wang is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Funda Wang [mailto:fundawang@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:14 PM To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) Subject: Re[2]: Corrections to timezone database Olson,> The normal procedure is to use the most populous city in the time zone; thus Olson,> Shanghai rather than Beijing (and New York rather than Washington). Thanks for your clear explanation. The reason why Shanghai is the most populouse city in China is that there is no surburb around Shanghai. 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. Anyway, I do think there should be a "Beijing" in timezone list. The timezone we Chinese are using is UTC+8, which is called "The Time of Beijing(TTB)" in China, rather "China Standard Time(CST)", no matter what number of population density do beijing have. Even in the western part of China, say Urumqi, they are using TTB while the actual geographic timezone it locates is UTC+7. And, you may know, someone may take it as political issue the lack of Beijing.