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The official national standard time is called Beijing Time ( BJT, simplified Chinese: 北京时间; traditional Chinese: 北京時間; pinyin: Běijīng shíjiān) domestically because it is based on the 120th meridian east, where Beijing City is located, [ 1][ 2] and China Standard Time ( CST) internationally. [ 3]
Further reading. List of tz database time zones. The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [ 1 ] This is a list of time zones from release 2024a of the tz database. [ 2 ]
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+8), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−5), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−6), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in an earlier ...
Xinjiang Time ( Chinese: 新疆时间; pinyin: Xīnjiāng shíjiān ), also known as Ürümqi Time ( Chinese: 乌鲁木齐时间; pinyin: Wūlǔmùqí Shíjiān ), is a time standard used in Xinjiang, China. It is used alongside Beijing Time, which is widely observed by the rest of the country. The time offset is UTC+06:00, which is two hours ...
UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00. With an estimated population of 1.708 billion living within the time zone, roughly 21% of the world population, it is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time . This time zone is used in all predominantly Chinese-speaking ...
Hào ( 號) is a colloquial term used to express the day of the month instead of rì ( 日 ). It is rarely used in formal writing. 2006èrlínglíngliù 年nián 1yī 月yuè 29èrshíjiǔ 號hào 星期日xīngqírì. Hào is more often used when the month is understood from the context, i.e.: 29号 for the 29th.
Since North Vietnam used UTC+07:00 to calculate their Vietnamese calendar and South Vietnam used UTC+08:00 (Beijing time) to calculate theirs, North Vietnam began the Tết holiday at 29 January at 23:29 while South Vietnam began it on 30 January at 00:15. The time difference allowed asynchronous attacks in the Tet Offensive. [7]
Using the definition of kè as 1⁄100 of a day, each kè is equal to 0.24 hours, 14.4 minutes, or 14 minutes 24 seconds. Every shí contains 8 1⁄3 kè, with 7 or 8 full kè and partial beginning or ending kè. These fractional kè are multiples of 1⁄6 kè, or 2 minutes 24 seconds. [ a] The 7 or 8 full kè within each shí were referred to ...