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A person may take knowing the local time for granted, but an official review revealed that there is no single, accurate map showing the nation’s time zones and local observance of Daylight ...

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the standard time zone. Each 15° longitude west of this line is an hour earlier than that GMT, while each 15° east is an hour later.

By degrees of longitude Beijing, more than 3,000km to the east, should be about two and a half hours ahead of Kashgar. ... Not all time-zone changes are as extreme as China’s.