Time in Taiwan | in taiwan time
NationalStandardTime[I]istheofficialtimezoneinTaiwandefinedbyanUTCoffsetof+08:00.ThisstandardisalsoknownasTaipeiTime(臺北時間),TaiwanTimeorTaiwanStandardTime,TST(臺灣時間).[1]History[edit]HistoryoftimestandardinTaiwanTimeoffsetNameCharacterRomanizationStartdateEnddateUTC+08:00WesternStandardTime西部標準時SeibuHyōjunji1896-01-011937-09-30UTC+09:00CentralStandardTime中央標準時ChūōHyōjunji1937-10-011945-09-20UTC+08:00WesternStandardTime西部標準時SeibuHyōjunji1945-09-211945-10-25UTC+08:00Chungyu...
National Standard Time[I] is the official time zone in Taiwan defined by an UTC offset of +08:00. This standard is also known as Taipei Time (臺北時間), Taiwan Time or Taiwan Standard Time, TST (臺灣時間).[1]
History[edit] History of time standard in Taiwan Time offset Name Character Romanization Start date End date UTC+08:00 Western Standard Time 西部標準時 Seibu Hyōjunji 1896-01-01 1937-09-30 UTC+09:00 Central Standard Time 中央標準時 Chūō Hyōjunji 1937-10-01 1945-09-20 UTC+08:00 Western Standard Time 西部標準時 Seibu Hyōjunji 1945-09-21 1945-10-25 UTC+08:00 Chungyuan Standard Time 中原標準時間 Zhōngyuán Biāozhǔn Shíjiān 1945-10-25 Early 2000s UTC+08:00 National Standard Time 國家標準時間 Guójiā Biāozhǔn Shíjiān 2000sThe first time zone standard in Taiwan was enforced on 1 January 1896,[2] the second year of Taiwan under Japanese rule. The standard was called Western Standard Time (西部標準時) with time offset of UTC+08:00, based on 120°E longitude. On 1 October 1937, the Western Standard Time zo...