National Standard Time

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National Standard Time is the official time standard used in Taiwan, corresponding to UTC+8.

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Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf time in Taiwan
time standard
alsoKnownAs Taipei Time
Taiwan Standard Time
appliesToTerritory Republic of China
Taiwan
basedOnTimeZone UTC+08:00 time zone
broadcastMethod internet time service (NTP)
telephone time service
country Taiwan
currentDSTStatus not observed since 1979
DSTObservationPeriod 1945–1961 (intermittent)
1974–1975
DSTObservedHistorically yes
governingAuthority Bureau of Standards Metrology and Inspection
Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan
IANAZoneIdentifier Asia/Taipei
introduced 1945
languageOfOfficialName Chinese
legalStatus official time of Taiwan
measurementStandard atomic clocks
NTPServerDomain time.stdtime.gov.tw
observedBy Hsinchu NERFINISHED
Kaohsiung NERFINISHED
Taichung NERFINISHED
Tainan NERFINISHED
Taipei NERFINISHED
observesDaylightSavingTime no
officialNameInChinese 國家標準時間
offsetFromUTCInHours 8
previousTimeStandard Chungyuan Standard Time
previousUTCOffset UTC+09:00
region East Asia
relatedStandard Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
International Atomic Time
sameAsUTCOffsetAs China Standard Time
Hong Kong Time
Singapore Standard Time
standardMaintainedBy Telecommunication Laboratories of Chunghwa Telecom
timeScale Coordinated Universal Time
timeSignalService Chunghwa Telecom time service
timeZoneAbbreviation NST
NT
timeZoneRegion Asia/Taipei
usedFor civil timekeeping in Taiwan
legal time in Taiwan
usesDaylightSavingTime false
UTCOffset UTC+08:00

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