Until 1913, the official time standard for the whole of China was still the apparent solar time of Beijing, the capital of the country at the time. Starting in 1914, the Republic of China government began adopting the Beijing Local Mean Solar Time as the official time standard.
(titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), (of a non-binary person): Mixter: Mx; (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor), Madam (madam, ma'am)
âº plural of Mr (= âtitle used before a man's âname) used before the ânames of two or more men, usually in the âtitle of a âcompany: Messrs Wood and Laurence, âsolicitors. (Definition of Messrs from the Cambridge Advanced Learnerâs Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.