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In 1981, Malaysia decided to standardise the time across its territories to a uniform UTC+08:00. Singapore elected to follow suit, citing business and travel schedules. [14] [15] The change took effect on New Year's Day (1 January) 1982 when Singapore moved half an hour forward on New Year's Eve (31 December) 1981 at 11:30 pm creating "Singapore Standard Time" (SST) or "Singapore Time" (SGT). [16]
Hello Singapore Highlights (weekdays 7:30am) News Tonight – 晚间新闻 (all days from 10pm to 10:30pm) (also broadcast on Mediacorp Channel U at 11pm on all days) Singapore Today – 狮城6点半 (weekends only from 6:30pm) 60s News in Brief (weekdays at 11am, 3pm and 5pm & weekends at 5pm)
In Singapore, prime time begins at 18:00 on Channel 5, 18:30 on Channel 8 and 19:00 on Channel U, CNA, Suria, Vasantham. [3] which are also the main (Free-to-air) television channels in Singapore. [4] [5] On Channel 8, prime time ends at midnight or 0:15 on weekdays, at 0:30 on Saturday nights, and at 23:30 on Sunday nights.
Channel 8 (Chinese: 8頻道) is a Singaporean Mandarin-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp.The channel broadcasts general entertainment and news programming in the Mandarin language, including original and imported programming.
Channel 5 is an English-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp.The channel primarily airs English language programming made in Singapore, and imported programmes from other nations such as the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Philippines, broadcasting news (as News Tonight) and entertainment from a variety of ...
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
News 5 Tonight is a Singaporean Standard English (Singapore English)/Singaporean Colloquial English (Singlish) long-running main flagship late-night television news bulletin on Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) Channel 5 and Singapore International Television since its inception which runs daily from 10:30pm to 11:00pm Singapore Time on ...
India uses only one time zone (even though it spans two geographical time zones) across the whole nation and all its territories, called Indian Standard Time (IST), which equates to UTC+05:30, i.e. five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). India does not currently observe daylight saving time (DST or summer time).