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2015-08-08 China-Japan-Koreas

Kim o'clock? North Korea to set up new time zone

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Posted by Fred 2015-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 So, sort of like Newfoundland?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-08 12:41|| 2015-08-08 12:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like our unemployable Marketing / Communications Majors have taken up shop in Pyongyang.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-08-08 15:22|| 2015-08-08 15:22|| Front Page Top

#3 30 minutes and 50 years behind the rest of the world

Posted by Frank G on the road 2015-08-08 20:35|| 2015-08-08 20:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Pyongyong is at approximate longitude of 126 deg east longitude. The sun transits 15 deg/hour, so Pyongyong is 126/15 = 8.4 hours or 8h 24min east of Imperial Pig Greenwich time. That means that they could run Pyongyong pretty close to mean solar time, like towns used to do before the railroads came. Sooooo, subtract 36 min from nine hours E of Greenwich and you have stepped back into the 18th and 19th centuries. Geniuses.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-08-08 21:52|| 2015-08-08 21:52|| Front Page Top

#5 plus Glorious Leader has decreed Daylight Savings of 24 hours, leading to increased productivity

Posted by Frank G on the road 2015-08-08 22:15|| 2015-08-08 22:15|| Front Page Top

#6 hell, they seem to be in their own century. Why not time zone too?

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