Northwestern Ontario west of 90°
West (except Atikokan area, New
Osnaburgh and Pickle Lake area, and
Shebandowan and Upsala area), and Big
Trout Lake area east of 90° West,
Saskatchewan (except Lloydminster and
surrounding area)
Territories
observing DST rules for Russia, Belarus and
Armenia
(DST begins 2
a.m. local standard time on the last
Sunday in March and ends 3 a.m. local
daylight saving time on the last Sunday in
October, in each time zone)
Nepal's time zone
of
UTC+5:45 was adopted in 1986.
This is the nearest quarter-hour from
Greenwich to the
local mean time of Nepal's capital
Kathmandu, which is at 85°19'E or
5:41:16. Old CIA maps, 1995 and earlier,
have Nepal at
UTC+5:40, which may be their
approximation of Kathmandu's local mean
time.
Western Australia begins a 3-year
experiment with usage of Summer (Daylight
Saving) time on
3 December
2006. Daylight Saving time will be
used from October through March, with
the late start in 2006 due to late
passage of the relevant legislation. A
referendum will be held in the autumn or
winter of 2009 to determine whether
Daylight Saving time usage will be
permanent.
Note that
the whole of the People's Republic of China
has the same time, which makes this time
zone exceptionally wide. In the extreme west
of China the sun is at its highest at 15:00,
in the extreme east at 11:00. It also means
that on the short (76 km) frontier with
Afghanistan, the official time change is
3 hours and 30 minutes. The two western
autonomous regions of
China,
Xinjiang and
Tibet, were in
UTC+6 during the
Republic era (1912–1949), but were moved
to
UTC+8 after the founding of the People's
Republic of China in 1949. Today, residents
of the two
autonomous regions do everything 2 hours
late. For example, lunch is at 14:00 and
business hour ends around 19:00.
The more
populous
Peninsular Malaysia is geographically in
UTC+7, but changed to UTC+8 in 1982 to
follow that of
Malaysian Borneo (which makes up only
20% of total population), so that the whole
country lies in the same time zone.[9]
