North Korea timezone to become GMT+9 from May 5 2018
The URL to the announcement cannot be directly copied, but you can access www.kcna.kp then select "English" on top right hand corner, and then there will be an article titled "SPA Presidium of DPRK Decides to Reset Pyongyang Time" which talk about the upcoming change in time in North Korea. Media outside North Korea have reported about it too. However, there are no info with respect to exactly which moment in May 5 are they switching their timezone
Hi, On 04/30/2018 09:38 AM, Phake Nick wrote:
The URL to the announcement cannot be directly copied, but you can access www.kcna.kp <http://www.kcna.kp> then select "English" on top right hand corner, and then there will be an article titled "SPA Presidium of DPRK Decides to Reset Pyongyang Time" which talk about the upcoming change in time in North Korea. Media outside North Korea have reported about it too. However, there are no info with respect to exactly which moment in May 5 are they switching their timezone
Reading: 8<--- Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK adopted a decree "On Resetting Pyongyang Time" on Monday. The decree reads: The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK decides as follows to unify the times of the north and the south: Firstly, Pyongyang time shall be reset into GMT+09:00 (30 minutes earlier than the present time) with the 135th degree of east longitude as prime meridian. Secondly, the reset Pyongyang time shall be applied from May 5, Juche 107 (2018). Thirdly, the Cabinet and relevant organs of the DPRK shall take practical steps to implement the decree. -0- --->8 With that, we have an english text confirming what has been interpreted before. Thanks. Cheers, Magnus
ah didn't realize similar messages have been posted onto the list beforehand, sorry for the duplication 在 2018年4月30日週一 17:07，Magnus Danielson <magnus@rubidium.dyndns.org> 寫道：
Hi,
On 04/30/2018 09:38 AM, Phake Nick wrote:
The URL to the announcement cannot be directly copied, but you can access www.kcna.kp <http://www.kcna.kp> then select "English" on top right hand corner, and then there will be an article titled "SPA Presidium of DPRK Decides to Reset Pyongyang Time" which talk about the upcoming change in time in North Korea. Media outside North Korea have reported about it too. However, there are no info with respect to exactly which moment in May 5 are they switching their timezone
Reading:
8<--- Pyongyang, April 30 (KCNA) -- The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK adopted a decree "On Resetting Pyongyang Time" on Monday.
The decree reads:
The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK decides as follows to unify the times of the north and the south:
Firstly, Pyongyang time shall be reset into GMT+09:00 (30 minutes earlier than the present time) with the 135th degree of east longitude as prime meridian.
Secondly, the reset Pyongyang time shall be applied from May 5, Juche 107 (2018).
Thirdly, the Cabinet and relevant organs of the DPRK shall take practical steps to implement the decree. -0- --->8
With that, we have an english text confirming what has been interpreted before. Thanks.
Cheers, Magnus
On 2018-04-30 09:07, Magnus Danielson quoted a Korean decree:
Secondly, the reset Pyongyang time shall be applied from May 5, Juche 107 (2018).
This can be read to imply that the switch is from 23:30 to 00:00, so that the new time scale is applied from 2018-05-05 onwards. The proposed patch would have the switch 30 minutes later. Michael Deckers.
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