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Article: Clarke asks Sri Lanka not to change standard time.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- March 14, 2006
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Clarke asks Sri Lanka not to change standard time
Colombo, March 14 (PTI) British science fiction guru Arthur C. Clarke today asked Sri Lanka not to change the standard time after a 10-year experiment on daylight saving and asked India to put the clock forward and join Colombo in a common time zone.
Clarke, 88, who has made the island nation his home, said he hoped "wiser counsel would prevail" and Sri Lanka will scrap plans to put the clock back by half-an-hour from April and revert to a time zone it shared with India till May 1996.
The celebrity author urged India to advance its clock by half an hour to make that country six hours ahead of GMT ...