Daylight Saving Time Proposed for China
From Reuters
PEKING —
Experts have urged China to adopt daylight saving time, which they say would save up to 2 billion kilowatt hours of energy a year, the New China News Agency said Friday.
Scholars at the Peking Energy Foundation recommended that China advance its clocks one hour from early April to mid-September.
All China runs on standard Peking time except the far west region of Xinjiang, which switched in February to two hours behind.
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