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Matters of Time

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Gardner bovingdon is an associate professor in the departments of central eurasian studies and international studies at indiana university. He says china should actually encompass five different times one, why doesit operate with only one? And has it always been like this? No, it hasn't. Time keeping iacross country was sort of all over the place until the end of world war two. For a brief period of time, they actually did observe five time zones across the country,. But that was all thrown out in 19 forty nine, after the establishment of the people's republic of china.

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