The Confusing Chinese Time Zone

Today I learned that China has only one time zone, which wouldn't be a big deal, since most countries in the world are like that. But since China has a huge territory, this creates some interesting scenarios - like experiencing a sunset at 11PM in the far west city of Kashgar, while the capital Beijing is already asleep in the dead of night. And this all happened because in 1949, after the Chinese Communist Party established control over the country and the chairman Mao Zedong mashed together the 5 previous time zones into only one, Beijing Standard Time, for the purpose of "national unity".
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REFERENCES
China time zone: TIL08_china1
China time zone 2: nyti.ms/3oL0mNp
Xinjiang Conflict: bit.ly/TIL08_xinjiang
Ethnicity in China: bit.ly/TIL08_ethnicity
Kashgar sunset time: bit.ly/TIL08_kashgar
Beijing sunset time: bit.ly/TIL08_beijing
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[@walkonwalkonandynwa]

What makes it even weirder is that on the border of china and afghanistan has the longest time jump of 3:30 hours

[@xolang]

in Xinjiang, when you make an appointment to meet someone, it may be important to make sure if it's in Standard (Beijing) Time or in the local Ürümqi Time.
Otherwise you might miss the appointment by two hour.

[@alvinhe7871]

The good things is that on New Year’s Eve in Kashgar, the city could probably have a big celebration because lots of people over there can stay up until after midnight because of the sunrise and sunset being 3 hours later than Beijing with the sun up between 10:16 am - 7:41 pm on December 31st

[@alvinhe7871]

In Kashgar, latest June sunset is 10:27 pm and latest December sunrise is 10:16 am

[@astridsteel2511]

China be like "Our" Timezone

[@zander9276]

Keep up the great work man

[@diedrike863]

In Fuyuan, the earliest summer sunrise is 3:01 am (03:01), and the earliest winter sunset is 3:08 pm (15:08).

[@tahmidabdin4625]

Western parts of China
Has more light in the evenings but they do lack mornings light according to the clock compared to Beijing
Urumqi China on 27 April
UTC+8
Sunrise 7:08am
Sunset 9:06pm
If clocks were set back 2 hours to ideal time zones which is UTC+6
Sunrise 5:08am
Sunset 7:06pm

[@itsrxbin]

such a great video !!!

[@malthedesholmwegeberg2548]

Great vid

[@retsopmisv]

if you fly in the opposite direction of the earth's rotation at the same speed as it rotates, will the time of day be the same?

[@suomeaboo]

yes, but every 24 hours the date moves forward by one day (while the time stays constant)

[@DrJonesadventures]

Sorry, Portugal has 2 time-zones GMT and GMT -1 ( the Azores are still Portugal)

[@kevinli256]

I am Chinese, I grew up in Eastern China, and I belong to the Han ethnicity. However, I honestly HATE the idea of assigning one single time zone to such a big country. This is just ridiculous and I honestly don't think that this could offer any help to so-called unity.

[@sonam9493]

Evem bhutan have single timezone

[@renzoarvinrjacinto7760]

I very wondering if Beijing 6pm and if Urunqi xinjiang 6pm If see earth Day and night map

[@ninjapirate123]

France is smaller than China but has 12 time zones

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

It has nothing to do with size. Pay attention. It's about contiguous land masses. Not various separate territories.

[@ninjapirate123]

@@AlphaGeekgirl China has a bigger land mass than France though

[@sktvnz1751]

Years

[@steve99385]

Brasil?