How to look up historical time zones by date and location
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Aug 18 02:44:30 EDT 2014
luofeiyu <elearn2014 at gmail.com> writes:
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/time+zone
>
> time zone Any of the 24 divisions of the Earth's surface used to
> determine the local time for any given locality.
Thanks, it's good to know there are dictionaries out there with
incorrect definitions. That one is terrible and unhelpful.
> Urumqi 's localtime is beijin time ,it is decided by law .
> Urumqi 's timezone is east 6 ,it is decided by geography.
Please use the standard definition of “time zone”, otherwise your
terminology is only got to confuse the conversation.
> There is only one localtime in all over the chian,beijin time,but
> there are 5 timezone time in china .
This just doesn't match the truth of standard time zones. You are free
to think differently, but you will need to find a non-standard time zone
database that agrees with you.
> you are totally wrong ,not me .
You're free to keep on with that belief, but I'll only be providing
information based on standard time zone definitions. If you choose to
deviate from that, you're on your own.
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