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发帖数: 6973 | 1 Barbara Demick, Clocks square off in China's far west. Los Angeles Times,
Mar. 31, 2009.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fg-china-timezone31-2009mar31,0,2547939.story
Quote:
"Since 1949, the ethnic Chinese have grown from 9% to more than 40% of the [
Xinjinag] province's population
"Modern time zones dividing the world into 15-degree-wide slices of
longitude are a relatively recent invention * * * Until the late 19th
century, the standard practice had been for each town to set |
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