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 zoneof
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]
