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Matters of Time

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Bajing's Time Zone in Shin Jong

Gardener noticed that if a weaker person were asked what time it was, they would most likely respond with the local time. And this was because it more closely followed the solar pattern of shin jang. So for han chinese people in shin jong, life has just lived two hours earlier than local time.

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