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TIL although Vietnam and China share the same calendar, the one-hour timezone difference can lead to occasional mismatches. Typically, this results in only a one-day disparity, but in 1985, the difference was so pronounced that Vietnam's Lunar New Year occurred a full month earlier than in China

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