Certain regions of eastern Asia, including Greater China, observe a time zone eight hours ahead of UTC (UTC+8), and currently do not observe daylight saving time. The time zone observed in mainland China is known as Chinese Standard Time, and is in the same time zone as the Australian Western Standard Time, Chungyuan Standard Time, Hong Kong Time, Macau Standard Time and Singapore Standard Time. World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia, defined by subtracting Europe from Eurasia. ... Greater China (Traditional Chinese: 大中華地區; Simplified Chinese: 大中华地区; pinyin: ) is a term refering collectively to the financial markets and economies of mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... Chinese Standard Time Hong Kong Time Australian Western Standard Time Singapore Standard Time In detail Australia (AWST—Australian Western Standard Time) Western Australia (most of state) Brunei Peoples Republic of China, including mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau Indonesia (Central) Malaysia Mongolia* (most of country) Philippines Russia Buryatia* Irkutsk... Daylight saving time (also called DST, or summer time) is the portion of the year in which a regions local time is advanced by (usually) one hour from its official standard time. ... In this map of China, the light-coloured areas represent Mainland China, while yellow coloured area refers to Taiwan. ... Australian Western Standard Time or AWST is a time zone eight hours ahead of UTC. It is the same time zone as Chinese Standard Time. ... Hong Kong Time (abbreviation: HKT) is the time in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Singapore observes a time zone eight hours ahead of UTC, known as Singapore Standard Time or SST. It is the same time zone as Australian Western Standard Time, Chinese Standard Time and Hong Kong Time. ...

Effects of a uniform time zone

Sunset in the US is normally between 5pm and 7pm in a typical region on a typical day, but because all of China observes the same time zone, in the far west the Sun usually does not set until past nine o'clock, while the far east commonly experiences sunrises before 5am. If the same rule were used in the United States, then California and Florida would observe the same time, giving huge discrepancies. It is joked that having a single national time is an extreme example of implementing communism's egalitarian beliefs in the People's Republic of China. On the other hand, if people are used to it, they might not see any problem, and it makes coordination more efficient. One never needs to mention the time zone, as it is needed in e.g. the United States. A red sunset panorama A composite image showing the terminator dividing night from day, running across Europe and Africa. ... The terms PM, Pm or pm, when used by itself can refer to: Particulate Matter, fine dust and soot suspended in the air. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... State nickname: Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ...

Time zones of the Republic of China

In 1912 the Central Observatory in Peking (now Beijing) divided the Republic of China into five time zones, from UTC+5.5 to UTC+8.5: 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ...   Beijing? (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking) is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... The Republic of China (Traditional Chinese: 中華民國; Simplified Chinese: 中华民国; Wade-Giles: Chung¹-hua² Min²-kuo², Tongyong Pinyin: JhongHuá MínGuó, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó, Taiwanese POJ: Tiong-hoâ Bîn-kok) is a multiparty democratic state that today is composed of the island groups of Taiwan, the Pescadores, Quemoy...

• UTC+5.5: Kunlun Time Zone (崑崙時區) (Western part of Sinkiang and western part of Tibet)
• UTC+6: Sinkiang-Tibet Time Zone (新藏時區) (Sinkiang and Tibet)
• UTC+7: Kansu-Szechuan Time Zone (隴蜀時區) (Central China: Kansu, Szechuan, Ningsia, Shensi, etc.)
• UTC+8: Chungyuan Standard Time Zone (中原標準時區) (coastal China)
• UTC+8.5: Changpai Time Zone (長白時區) (northeast China)

The time zones were ratified in 1939 in the standard time conference of the Ministry of Interior of the Executive Yuan. Xinjiang (Chinese: æ–°ç–†; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Hsin1-chiang1; Postal Pinyin: Sinkiang; literal meaning: New Frontier; Uyghur: ), full name Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: XÄ«zàng; older spelling Thibet) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... Gansu (Simplified Chinese: 甘肃; Traditional Chinese: 甘肅; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kan-su, or modified as Kan-suh) is a province located in the northwest of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; obsolete romanizations include Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ... Ningxia (Simplified Chinese: 宁夏; Traditional Chinese: 寧夏; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ning-hsia) is an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China, located on the northwest loess highland, the Yellow River flows through a vast area of its land. ... Shaanxi (Simplified Chinese: 陕西; Traditional Chinese: 陝西; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Shensi, pronounced like Shahn-shee) is a northwestern province of the Peoples Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains... Chinese Standard Time Hong Kong Time Australian Western Standard Time Singapore Standard Time In detail Australia (AWST—Australian Western Standard Time) Western Australia (most of state) Brunei Peoples Republic of China, including mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau Indonesia (Central) Malaysia Mongolia* (most of country) Philippines Russia Buryatia* Irkutsk... The North China Plain (华北平原 Hua2bei3 Ping2yuan2) also called the Middle Plain (中原 Zhong1yuan2), is made of the deposits of the Huang He (Yellow River) and is the largest alluvial plain of eastern Asia. ... Approximate extent Northeast China (Simplified Chinese: 东北; Traditional Chinese: 東北; pinyin: Dōngběi; literally east-north), historically known as Manchuria, is the name of a region (ca. ... The Executive Yuan (行政院; literally executive court) is the executive branch of the government of the Republic of China. ...

Taiwan independence and time zone

Some Taiwan independence supporters have semi-seriously suggested advancing Taiwan's time zone by one hour as a step towards asserting Taiwan's separation from China. However, critics have (somewhat spuriously) pointed out that it would instead symbolize a reversion to Japanese colonialism, since Japan Standard Time is one hour ahead of Chinese Standard Time, even though Taiwan's time was different from that of mainland Japan's while Taiwan was under Japanese occupation from 1895 to 1945. Taiwan independence (Chinese: 台灣獨立, pinyin: Táiwān dúlì, Taiwanese Romanization: Tâi-oân To̍k-li̍p; abbreviated to 台獨, Táidú, Tâi-to̍k) is a political movement whose goal is primarily to create an independent and sovereign Republic of Taiwan (out of the lands currently administered... Japan Standard Time (日本標準時 or 中央標準時) is the standard timezone in Japan that is 9 hours ahead of UTC; i. ... The Home Islands refers to the four main islands of Japan: Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido. ...