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Hong Kong Time (abbreviation: HKT ; Traditional Chinese: 香港時間) is the time in Hong Kong. The time is UTC+8 all year round. Owing to the longitude in which Hong Kong is located, HKT is in the same time zone as used by the time standards in the rest of the People's Republic of China - Chinese Standard Time (also known as Beijing Time or Beijing Standard Time) in mainland China, and Macau Standard Time in Macau.

From 1941 to 1979, Hong Kong adopted daylight saving measures, but in 1980 the Royal Observatory (now: Hong Kong Observatory) found these unnecessary as Hong Kong is at a relatively low latitude, and decided to eliminate the practice.

Greenwich Mean Time was adopted as the basis in 1904, and UTC was adopted as a standard in 1972. Before that, local time was determined by astronomical observations at the Hong Kong Observatory using a 6-inch Lee Equatorial and a 3-inch Transit Circle.

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Sister systems Hanja, Kanji

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Capital None[2]
Largest district (population) Sha Tin District
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UTC+8 is a band of timezones separated from the Greenwich Mean Time by 8 hours.

UTC+8 is a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time.

Timezones

  • Australian Western Standard Time
  • Chinese Standard Time
  • Chungyuan Standard Time
  • Hong Kong Time

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equator divides the planet into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere, and has a latitude of 0. Longitude is the east-west geographic coordinate measurement most commonly utilized in cartography and global navigation.
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time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC (see also Greenwich Mean Time).
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Anthem
March of the Volunteers (义勇军进行曲)
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China Standard Time or Beijing Time is the time zone observed in Mainland China. It is eight hours ahead of UTC (UTC+8).

Certain regions of eastern Asia, including Greater China, also observe time zones which have the same offset, but use different names, such as
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Mainland China (Simplified Chinese: 中国大陆; Traditional Chinese: 中國大陸; Pinyin:
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Macao Standard Time (Traditional Chinese: 澳門標準時間) is the time in Macau. The time is UTC+8 all year round, and daylight saving time is not applied.
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Capital none[1]
Largest freguesia (population) Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima
Official languages Chinese, Portuguese
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1910s  1920s  1930s  - 1940s -  1950s  1960s  1970s
1938 1939 1940 - 1941 - 1942 1943 1944

Year 1941 (MCMXLI
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
1976 1977 1978 - 1979 - 1980 1981 1982

Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins.

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Daylight saving time (DST; also summer time in British English) is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less.
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1950s  1960s  1970s  - 1980s -  1990s  2000s  2010s
1977 1978 1979 - 1980 - 1981 1982 1983

Year 1980 (MCMLXXX
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Royal Observatory may refer to:
  • The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory.)
  • The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
  • Before 1997, Hong Kong Observatory.
  • The Royal Observatory of Belgium, Uccle.

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Hong Kong Observatory (Chinese: 香港天文台), known as the Royal Observatory (Chinese: 皇家香港天文台
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Time zones of Europe:

blue Western European Time (UTC+0)
Western European Summer Time (UTC+1)
red Central European Time (UTC+1)
Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
yellow Eastern European Time (UTC+2)
Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1870s  1880s  1890s  - 1900s -  1910s  1920s  1930s
1901 1902 1903 - 1904 - 1905 1906 1907

Year 1904 (MCMIV
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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a high-precision atomic time standard. UTC has uniform seconds defined by International Atomic Time (TAI), with leap seconds announced at irregular intervals to compensate for the earth's slowing rotation and other discrepancies.
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
1969 1970 1971 - 1972 - 1973 1974 1975

Year 1972 (MCMLXXII
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Hong Kong Observatory (Chinese: 香港天文台), known as the Royal Observatory (Chinese: 皇家香港天文台
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China, with its large territory, spans five time zones. For the past few decades, however, the geographical region of China, which includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, has been in the same time zone which is eight hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal
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