Originally Posted by
jolihokistix
While visiting Dalian in NE China, I was told by a local university staff member that the CCP government can change anything they like. If the law says (as it apparently does) that factory workers must quit working and go home whenever the summer temperature hits 35 degrees, then all media sources will continue to report a maximum of 34 degrees at the monitoring station.
There is one thing, however, that they are powerless to change. That is what day of the week it is today.
(Cynical but healthy Chinese humour at work.)
This is nothing new. In 1979/80 whilst working at Iraqi Airways there was a similar reg except the trigger temp was something like 50C. Obviously the reported temp never exceeded 49C!!
(My thermometer recorded way in excess of 50C quite often)