Talk:List of nuclear weapons tests of China

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SkoreKeep (talk) 04:17, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

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URUT?
What's URUT? --Voidvector (talk) 15:57, 21 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Xinjiang-Tibet Standard Time (+6 hours) SkoreKeep (talk) 16:37, 21 June 2017 (UTC)


 * There is something amiss here. Xinjiang Time is mostly used by Uyghurs, but the military is mostly Han who followed Beijing Time. Also Uyghurs didn't stop using Xinjiang time in 1979, they are still using it to this day. The 1979 year is probably when IATA acknowledged PRC time zones. The entries should either always follow Xinjiang Time or all say Beijing Time. IMO it should be Beijing Time. --Voidvector (talk) 19:01, 21 June 2017 (UTC)


 * According to the IPANA timezone document both Beijing time and Uyghur time arose in 1949 and are both still in use today, Beijing time by the Han and Uyghur time by the Uyghurs, each about 50% of the population. It would not hurt my feelings if either or both were given in the table in its entirety.  I'll defer to you if you would like to do so.  SkoreKeep (talk) 20:52, 21 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Is it even needed? The time column appears to be in UTC, and we telling user to do the conversion to local time in the note anyway.--Voidvector (talk) 22:11, 21 June 2017 (UTC)