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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on August 07, 2015, 1727 UTC

Title: North Korea to Move 30 Minutes Backward to Create Its Own Time Zone
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on August 07, 2015, 1727 UTC

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea, a hermetic country stuck in the Cold War and obsessed with its long-dead founder, now wants to turn back time.  By a half-hour.  The government announced on Friday that it would create its own time zone — “Pyongyang time” — and set its clocks 30 minutes behind those of South Korea and Japan. The change is set for Aug. 15, the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II, which freed the Korean Peninsula from Japanese rule.

The current time on the peninsula — nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time — was set by Japan. North Korean public pronouncements can be as virulently anti-Japanese as they are anti-American, so it was natural that the clock change would be billed as throwing off a hated vestige of colonial domination.

“The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time,” the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said on Friday.

Full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/world/asia/north-korea-time-zone.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/08/world/asia/north-korea-time-zone.html?_r=0)

Title: Re: North Korea to Move 30 Minutes Backward to Create Its Own Time Zone
Post by: skeezix on August 07, 2015, 2336 UTC

They also need to update the timezone file in Red Star OS.

Title: Re: North Korea to Move 30 Minutes Backward to Create Its Own Time Zone
Post by: Pigmeat on August 08, 2015, 0052 UTC

Great Leader single-handily brought back the "Philly Fade". A new time zone will be a cinch for him.

Title: Re: North Korea to Move 30 Minutes Backward to Create Its Own Time Zone
Post by: John Poet on August 08, 2015, 1904 UTC

This makes no sense whatever.

Title: Re: North Korea to Move 30 Minutes Backward to Create Its Own Time Zone
Post by: Pigmeat on August 08, 2015, 2236 UTC

Great Leader doesn't have to make sense, he's infallible.

Title: Re: North Korea to Move 30 Minutes Backward to Create Its Own Time Zone
Post by: jFarley on August 09, 2015, 0042 UTC

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2968192/microsoft-may-accomodate-north-koreas-new-time-zone.html

Title: Re: North Korea to Move 30 Minutes Backward to Create Its Own Time Zone
Post by: John Poet on August 09, 2015, 0314 UTC

I take that back.  I'm inspired.

TCS is now creating our own time zone--

"69 minutes ahead".

Say it out loud.