> Pity those who live in non-coastal China. While the whole country notiona=
lly marches
> to the beat of the Beijing time zone, those further West maintain unoffic=
ial local
> times so that they can see the sun rise and go to work at rational times.=
*
> Presumably they have to set their Windows time zones to locations in Indi=
a or
> elsewhere that match their local time aspirations, and hope that the deep=
er magic
> that insists that a PC in Auckland is actually in Valparaiso, does not al=
so insist
> that they are in Beijing ( ... / Qingdao / Ningbo / Macau / ... )..

Like travelling on the Trans-Siberian train across Russia. The whole train =
network runs on Moscow time.
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