DST is phukking ridiculous. Serves no real purpose other than tu sacrifice daylight in the evening tu have sunlight in the early morning. Phukk that shit.
The reason for this confusion is simple: China, a country that is of roughly similar size to the continental United States, has one time zone: Beijing Standard Time. This means that when it's 6 oclock in the nation's capital, its 6 oclock almost 3,000 miles further west, in Kashgar.
China hasn't always had one time zone. In 1912, the year after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the newly empowered Republic of China established five different time zones in the country, ranging from five and a half to eight and a half hours past Greenwich Mean Time. But in 1949, as the Communist Party consolidated control of the country, Chairman Mao Zedong decreed that all of China would henceforth be on Beijing time for the purposes of national unity.
I was probly at work during both times changes every year...the 7hr shift and the 9hr shift for a 20yr time period. I was the one that set the depot clock to the correct time so you guys coming in the morning could set your watches to it. I'm indifferent to standard/daylight time as a rule but would be OK with standard time 365days.
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