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Re:The Tyranny of Time by adamjb on Monday June 07, 2021 @10:50PM (#27430129)
From TFA

>In places where globally standardized time is enforced, some still rebel, like in China, where the entire country is under one time zone, BST (Beijing Standard Time). In Xinjiang, nearly 2,000 miles west of Beijing, where the sun sometimes sets at midnight according to BST, many Uighur communities use their own form of local solar time.

Re:The Tyranny of Time by YossarianFrPrez on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:14AM (#27431191)
My understanding is that India is on one timezone too. One researcher has suggested that introducing timezones could lead to a reduction in fuel emissions via partially offsetting when "peak demand" occurs [1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264005963_Reducing_...

Re:The Tyranny of Time by throw0101a on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @07:16AM (#27433585)
There are complaints about India's single timezone:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47168359

However, given that India is relatively narrow east-west, the discrepancy between wall time and solar time actually isn't that bad:

* https://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-...