In China's West, Muslims Keep Their Own Time

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 31, 2009 2:24 PM CDT

(Newser) – There are two time zones in Kashgar, China, and they’re two hours apart. Which you follow depends not on geographic location, but on ethnic identity. The town’s dominant Muslim Uighur minority refuses to set its clocks by China’s single, standardized time, instead... Read full story »

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