Quick Q: Spring Ahead This Weekend?

[Angie Parkes]

Originally posted by piqaboo:
Imagine the difference between 6 am in teh two ends of China!

I think the Chinese kinda have a tradition where the government says, "This is the way we're doing it -- get used to the idea" regardless of the objections of Chinese citizens.

[piqaboo]

Oh yes, Angie, they do indeed. Its a 5000 year old tradition. It has its good and its bad points! Thats why, until the Cultural Revolution, Chinese who could read and write, could read Confucius et al in the original text.

I just get a kick out of imagining what it would be like to take a train straight across, experiencing all the different versions of "6 am".