Of course the location of the capital of China on the extreme East magnifies the problem of a lack of time zones, but power has always been about making your personal life easier, and screw the “little people”. Sounds a lot like the Hedgemony.
You got mountains, you got earthquakes. New South Wales is ahead on points with its floods after its fires, but Queensland looks to have a rather nasty typhoon Hamish about ready to make a visit.
]]>At least everyone knows where they stand… if they want to keep standing. 😉 I sometimes wonder if it might be better than a faux Democracy where people think they know where they stand, but in reality it’s usually miles from where they think. 😀
OT: We had an earthquake! Was only 4.6, but even though the epicenter was 70-80km from here, it shook the house. Felt like an explosion somewhere nearby. Was weird, I don’t think I’ve actually felt one in Melb before, even though I know we have one very occasionally.
Melbourne escapes unscathed after earthquake
Now I’m simply awaiting the floods and volcanic eruption to complete the list of bad natural events. Possibly a plague of locusts wouldn’t be amiss either! LOL
]]>All in all, I found it mildly amusing to find out this little fact about China’s time zones, or lack thereof. And of course China doesn’t do DST for much the same reason. It interferes with the gerontocracy’s sleep patterns, and old men do need their sleep, y’know. Totalitarian dictatorship. Ah, what a system!
]]>You would think that the fact that both legs of the flight were with the same airline, they would call ahead and let the departing flight know that two of their passengers were delayed, but I assume that since they oversell all flights, they don’t care.
They finally arrived an hour and a half late when the second flight was delayed. What a fun time.
I understand the unique problem of trains, i.e. there is no alternate route and a delay at one point ripples immediately though the entire system for every train that has to pass that point. With buses they should just say flat out that all times are approximate and it’s more of a suggestion than an actual schedule.
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]]>True about China, as I learned on a business trip all over many years ago. 🙂
]]>– Badtux the Timely Penguin
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