If it's 7am, it must feel like the middle of the night in the west and like lunchtime in the east.
2007-03-26 07:49:55 · 15 answers · asked by little_friend 3 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ China
Time in China
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China, with its large territory, spans five time zones. For the past few decades, however, the geographical region of China, which includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, has been in the same time zone which is eight hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
2007-03-26 08:05:31 · update #1
It's politically motivated. The Communists established the single time zone after victory in 1949. Before 1949, China was divided into 5 time zones.
The CCP liked to regularly ignore nature when political factors were deemed more important and this is a great example. The single time zone was established in the name of one-country-unity by the zealous and war-weary CCP in the 50's.
2007-03-27 06:36:55 · answer #1 · answered by mjo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I know it does not make any sense as China is huge from east to west but what I was told is that, they did not want any confusion and did not want to have time zones like the US.
Remember, a long time ago the communication system in the western part of China was very poor (not to mention the poverty). Telling people of a time change would have been a nightmare.
2007-03-26 13:48:08 · answer #2 · answered by grendeth 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the law because China is one country and that's one way of expressing it. . There aqre others such as one standard language putonghua when there are more tht fifty registered local languages. And yes you are right the time 'difference' between Urumqi and Beijing is abouty three hours in real terms. Businesses adjust their working times to allow for this. It's not as much of a problem as it sounds
2007-03-26 08:42:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the same in Russia - it's very strange going East on the Trans-Siberian Express and losing time every day because the breakfast car is on local time!
It's very strange, the official time in Irkutsk for government offices and so on is Moscow Time, but a few hundred miles south in China it's 4 hours earlier!
Philip
2007-03-26 11:04:01 · answer #4 · answered by Our Man In Bananas 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is one central time in China, however, there are different local time zones.
2007-03-26 07:56:16 · answer #5 · answered by LOGANBIRD 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there used to be different time zones in the uk until the end of the last century .It makes it easier if the time is unified throuout the country.
2007-03-26 07:59:07 · answer #6 · answered by paul t 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they don't set the clocks back or forward either. I'm thinking that the country is longer than it is wider so maybe not an extreme difference on the east to west sides.
2007-03-26 07:56:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
easy to centalize everything, such as languages too. everyone needs to speak Mandarin to communicate, and people move around for jobs and living. so, everything seems a lot of easier to handle.
2007-03-26 22:24:02 · answer #8 · answered by Tracy But 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but I am eagerly awaiting the responses too. Thank you.
2007-03-26 14:28:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are 5 time zones in china http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zones_of_China
2007-03-26 08:00:02 · answer #10 · answered by DoYouKnowMe 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋