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NEWS ABOUT: time zones

time zones stories: 4 news summaries

(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 using the same wacky, sun-based... More »

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China • time zones • Mao Zedong • ethnic tensions • Uighurs

 To Beat Jet Lag, 
 Skip Airline Food 

Fasting can help reset your internal clock, study says

May 23, 08 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jet lag can be beaten—if passengers avoid airline food, new research suggests. The timing of meals has a profound effect on the body's internal rhythms, and passengers who go without for a while—keeping the body's "food-related clock" in check—can dodge much of the exhausting effects of... More »

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jet lag • time zones • airline food • biological clock • internal clock • long haul flights • Clifford Saper • fasting

Chavez
Calls Time
for Venezuela

President orders country's clocks to make 30-minute shift

Dec 10, 07 9:30 AM CST
(Newser) - In an apparent move by Hugo Chavez to thumb his nose at Washington, Venezuela turned back the clock for good yesterday. The shift creates a single-nation time zone 4 hours and 30 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time. Supporters of the move say waking up earlier will boost productivity, but others... More »

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Venezuela • time zones • Hugo Chávez

Chavez Hands Nation New Time Zone

Setting clocks back
30 minutes will 'condition brains'

Aug 24, 07 4:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez plans to bump clocks in his nation back half an hour next month to add daylight to citizens' lives and create "a more fair distribution of the sunrise," Reuters reports. The change will particularly help poor children who wake up before dawn to go... More »

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Venezuela • sunlight • time zones • Greenwich Mean Time • Hugo Chávez

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