N Korea winds back its clocks to make 'Pyongyang time'

[AURaptor 1,121]

Wonder if Eric Clapton will write a song about it.

North Korea has announced that it is winding its clocks back by 30 minutes to create a new "Pyongyang Time" - breaking from a time standard imposed by what it called "wicked Japanese imperialists" more than a century ago.

The change will put the standard time in North Korea at GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind South Korea which, like Japan, is at GMT+9:00.

North Korea said the time change, approved on Wednesday by its rubber-stamp parliament and announced on Friday, would come into effect from August 15, which this year marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule.

"The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time while mercilessly trampling down its land," the North's official KCNA news agency said.

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I read that South Korea did the same after the Korean War and moved off Japanese time. Then the Japanese offered money to kick start the South Korean economy. The South Koreans moved back to the same timezone as Japan.

1/2 hour timezones are not that uncommon.

[cooltigger21 0]

Wonder if Eric Clapton will write a song about it.

North Korea has announced that it is winding its clocks back by 30 minutes to create a new "Pyongyang Time" - breaking from a time standard imposed by what it called "wicked Japanese imperialists" more than a century ago.

The change will put the standard time in North Korea at GMT+8:30, 30 minutes behind South Korea which, like Japan, is at GMT+9:00.

North Korea said the time change, approved on Wednesday by its rubber-stamp parliament and announced on Friday, would come into effect from August 15, which this year marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula's liberation from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule.

"The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time while mercilessly trampling down its land," the North's official KCNA news agency said.

Nah we don't need a new song just adapt the old classic Don Williams song Tulsa Time.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvny0dMSiU

[Auburn4life 24]

parts of China probably sucks to live in. It will either be day light very early or very late.

[AUloggerhead 2,225]

Pushing the clocks back 30 years might make more sense.