Just shorten the work day, you capitalist pigs.

Also, China is one big time zone. How does that work? They all start school/work the same time? Or are there unofficial time zones where people shifted their day?

  • Not_irony [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Regardless, Beijing Time users in Xinjiang usually schedule their daily activities two hours later than those who live in eastern China. As such, stores and offices in Xinjiang are commonly open from 10am to 7pm Beijing Time, which equals 8am to 5pm in Ürümqi Time.[16] This is known as the work/rest time in Xinjiang.[17]

    In most areas of Xinjiang, the opening time of local authorities is additionally modified by shifting the morning session 30–60 minutes backward and the afternoon session 30 minutes forward to extend the lunch break for 60–90 minutes, so as to avoid the intense heat during noon time in the area during summer.[11]

    Seems reasonable

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Imagine basing your work schedule on the afternoon heat instead of what some bi-coastal elite slave-driver saw as the optimally efficient work schedule during a TED talk on sweatshops.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      back when I was (even more) lib I remember reading The Economist, or some capitalist rag, about how setting your clock to Xinjiang Time was an act of defiance against the state and that people were punished for it. that turned out to be bullshit when I looked into it and was helpful in realizing how much I was being lied to all the time

      • Not_irony [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Something like would never happen in the US. People are free to go about their day however they like, and definitely get to control their schedule and definitely not beholden to Jody at work, who puts the schedule out late Friday afternoon for Monday after I've already left and now I need to call into work just to figure out if I work tomorrow

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          imagining Arizona State Police battering down the door of an office because their clocks observe Daylight Savings Time

      • NationalizeMSM [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I spent a few weeks there, working on Beijing time, and I must admit. It was pretty nice. Waking up at 7, I could go for a morning jog with the sunrise. Then after work there would be another 5 hours of daylight. But it was confusing because if you asked anybody what time it was, they would tell you the local time. Nobody does official time there.