Mongolian time zone.
Currently, tz database say Mongolia use UTC+7/8/9 as timezone. However, after quick google search, I found a question about time of Mongolia in a Mongolia question and answer time at [1]. The page itself is facing technical problem to me so I accessed it via Google cache which I subsequently thrown the cache into Google translate and archived the result at [2]. According to the page from 2016, three different users of the site answered the question with same answer, and all of them are saying Mongolia have three different timezone: 6, 7, 8. This is different from the information recorded in tz database. So, is the information in tz database incorrect? And then, another question on the site [3] (archived in [4]) asked about when did Mongolia start officially using the world time and someone answered since 1997. What does that mean? (On the other hand, another answer to a similar question say 1961... [5][6] or is that an error in machine translation?) [1]: http://acyy.mn/3379/монгол-улс-хэд-хэддүгээр-цагын-бүсэд-оршдог-вэ [2]: http://archive.is/y3jpH [3]: http://acyy.mn/8620/монгол-хэдэн-оноос-дэлхийн-бүсийн-цагийг-хэрэглэж-эхлэсэн [4]: http://archive.is/PQBVk [5]: http://acyy.mn/7379/му-хэдэн-оноос-дэлхийн-цагийг-баримтлах-болсон-бэ [6]: http://archive.is/e39nW
Phake Nick wrote:
Currently, tz database say Mongolia use UTC+7/8/9 as timezone. However, after quick google search, I found a question about time of Mongolia in a Mongolia question and answer time at [1]. The page itself is facing technical problem to me so I accessed it via Google cache
Thanks, but as you can see from the 'asia' file we prefer to get this sort of information from reliable sources. "We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones," says the asia file, and in tricky areas like this it's best to be cautious about the sources.
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