6/15/2023 0 Comments Gmt 5 city![]() That, unsurprisingly, is incredibly complicated – as Apple learnt when an iOS update silently put all users onto the local unofficial time zone, meaning many people’s alarms went off two hours later than they were expecting. ![]() One half of the city in Western China uses its own unofficial time zone, while the other runs a working day from 11pm-7pm to account for out of kilter day inflicted by Beijing. In fact, it’s so illogical that Urumqi’s time zone is unofficially split in two. When the sun rises on the longest day in the far eastern city of Jiamusi, it’s 7:24pm in the UK, but when it rises in the far west, in Kashgar, it’s 11:29pm.Īnd yet the entire country only has one time zone. The third-largest country in the world, China sprawls across the Asian continent, spanning a sixth of the world’s breadth. ![]() And even though it’s probably better than the alternative system, where once upon a time every town set its clock to noon when the sun was at its highest and integration be damned, the standardisation of time zones has resulted in some very strange side-effects.
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