Hi, in terms of calculating one's 8 characters and 4 pillars, is there a difference between a person being born in U.S. on 10/5/63 at 2:30 pm than someone being born in China on the same date and time?
Thanks a lot.

Dear Anon,
Frankly, we have conducted at least greater than 9,000 Feng Shui audits based on the influence on China timing.
We still feel that this is accurate for the following reasons:
1. Many Masters use Pillars of Destiny use only the Year, Month, Day and Time of birth.
Furthermore, time of birth can even be left out if not known.
2. Some people give the false notion that it must be based on GMT time. But GMT time even has been changed in 1980 or other periods for some countries.
3. Chinese timing is based on two hourly timings unlike the 1 hour time we are used to.
4. Even if we want to consider latitude, we must also consider longitude in such a senario where GMT time is used.
5. Thus what I believe, is that basing on GMT time looks great or more advanced than say simply using just the Year, Month, Day and Time of birth.
6. Another view point is that if we consider time zone, then, you may have to consider the country, specific location you are born in.
Sometimes
Even Pillars of Destiny authors like Raymond Lo, does not factor in `GMT'. There are many many more traditional practitioners who do not use "GMT".
It is those who do not know much about how `GMT' is properly implemented that wants to make it look so sophisticated and perhaps impress. But, impressions are superficial and if we see fit, we could easily have done it. But only do things for a specific reason.
Since we are able to come up with a sophisticated system, we can easily add it in but do not want to do so, because, this is as mentioned above, not appropriate.
For those who add GMT, it is not simply like running the time zone just like the Windows 95 program, click on your time zone, and there, you go, your time etc.. changed to what is perceived `correct'.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 4/6/00 3:06:00 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Hi, in terms of calculating
one's 8 characters and 4
pillars, is there a difference
between a person being born in
U.S. on 10/5/63 at 2:30 pm
than someone being born in
China on the same date and
time?
Thanks a lot.