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  2. Time in Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Time in the rest of the archipelago remained unregulated. [2] [3] Ten years later, on 22 February 1918, time in Padang, Sumatra was set at 39 minutes ahead of Central Java, while time in Palembang was set at 8 hours and 20 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. Then, on 1 January 1924, times for various locations were set as follows: [2] [3]

  3. Daylight saving time in Asia - Wikipedia

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    The British first instituted summer time in Egypt in 1940, during the Second World War.The practice was stopped after 1945, but resumed 12 years later, in 1957. [1]Before the revolution in January 2011, the government was planning to take a decision to abolish summer time in 2011 before President Hosni Mubarak's term expires in September 2011.

  4. Candle clock - Wikipedia

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    Similar methods of measuring time were used in medieval churches. [ citation needed ] The invention of the candle clock was attributed by the Anglo-Saxons to Alfred the Great , king of Wessex . The story of how the clock was created was narrated by Asser , who lived at Alfred's court and became his close associate. [ 2 ]

  5. Civil time - Wikipedia

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    In modern usage, GMT is no longer a formal standard reference time: it is now a name for the time zone UTC+00:00. Universal Time is now determined by reference to distant celestial objects: UTC is derived from International Atomic Time (TAI), and is adjusted by leap seconds to compensate for variations in the rotational velocity of the Earth. [3]

  6. Clock skew - Wikipedia

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    There are two types of violation that can be caused by clock skew. One problem is caused when the clock reaches the first register and the clock signal towards the second register travels slower than output of the first register into the second register - the output of the first register reaches the second register input faster and therefore is clocked replacing the initial data on the second ...

  7. Singapore Time - Wikipedia

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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]

  8. List of districts of Jakarta - Wikipedia

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    In total, there are 44 districts and 267 subdistricts in Jakarta, a number that has remained constant since the most recent administrative change in 2001. [1]: 34–35 South Jakarta and East Jakarta are tied with the largest number of districts with 10 each, while the Thousand Islands Regency has the least with just 2. [1]: 40

  9. Timeline of Jakarta - Wikipedia

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    18 August – 2 September: Jakarta host 2018 Asian Games with Palembang [41] [42] Jakarta host 2018 Asian Para Games. 2019 24 March: The first phase of the Jakarta MRT opens. [43] 22 May: A mass protest against the 2019 Indonesian general election results, which later turned into a riot, took place on 22 May 2019 in Jakarta, Indonesia.