As with most religions, most devotees of the religion ignore a lot of whatever is in whatever sacred texts. And then there are theologians of every religion who interpret or re-interpret things in different ways.
Like I said, it's better not to imagine that books, or anybody, speak(s) with the voice of God. Fortunately, most people have better sense in what they do, regardless of what they are told they are supposed to believe. A person's behavior is generally a better indication of what he believes than what he says he believes, or even of what he thinks he believes. Then, too, the fact that words are tricky allows people to say things that they don't understand themselves (e.g., 'the Free World', 'India is a democratic country', 'the U.S. DEFENSE Dept.' etc.)
Quote from a famous 17th-century Muslim Indian poet (forgot his name): "We might as well allow all religions, since God Himself allows them."

My question was: Where & when was it supposed to have been 3PM, before it got to be 1PM in Kunming? Was that 3PM sunday in Kunming, or 3PM in Greenwich, or what?

Times of forecasts on gokunming seem not to be local times - are they GMT or what? About 1PM today there was a forecast from 3pm - yesterday?

Define 'religion'.

@Haali: At any rate many of the old testament stories are referred to as a kind of 'background knowledge' or understanding in the Quran, although their significance and interpretation are not necessarily the same, and this reflects the spread of these stories, as well as new testament accounts, within the world that the Prophet Mohammed was familiar with. Thus Christians and Jews are both 'Peoples of the Book', who have received prophecy, for Muslims - Muslims merely consider that the Jews and Christians have frequently misunderstood the accounts in their book(s), and that some of the accounts have been misrepresented in the Jewish and Christian books.
I think I've got this right - will be glad to be corrected.