North Korea Is Switching To a New Time Zone

jones_supa writes: North Korea has announced that it is winding its clocks back by half a hour 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 UTC +8:30. North Korea said that the time change, approved on Wednesday by its rubber-stamp parliament and officially 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.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Are you really that dim? France should be on the same timeline as the UK because the fucking GMT meridian runs right through both countries. Durrr. But don't let geographical reality cloud your already foggy brain. You don't chose time zones based on when you get your lazy bum out of bed and eat dinner.