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Standard Zone Time: 1 January 1933 – 31 August 1941 GMT+07:20 Malaya Daylight Time/Malaya Standard Time: 1 September 1941 – 15 February 1942 GMT+07:30 Malaya Standard Time: 16 February 1942 – 11 September 1945 GMT+09:00 Tokyo Standard Time: 12 September 1945 – 31 December 1981 GMT+07:30 Malaya Standard Time/Malaysia Standard Time
The ASEAN Common Time (ACT) is a proposal to adopt a standard time for all Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was proposed in 1995 by Singapore , and in 2004 and 2015 by Malaysia to make business across countries easier.
Malaysia is: a megadiverse country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia (both on the mainland and offshore) Asia. Southeast Asia. Malay Peninsula; Borneo; Time zone: Malaysian Standard Time = ASEAN Common Time ; Extreme points of Malaysia. High: Gunung Kinabalu 4,095 m (13,435 ft) Low: South China Sea and Indian Ocean 0 m
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]
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The Malay Peninsula [a] is located in Mainland Southeast Asia. The landmass runs approximately north–south, and at its terminus, it is the southernmost point of the Asian continental mainland. The area contains Peninsular Malaysia , Southern Thailand , and the southernmost tip of Myanmar ( Kawthaung ).
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.
Pronunciation also tends to be very different, with East Malaysia, Standard Singapore, and Indonesia pronouncing words in a form called Bahasa Baku, [36] where the words are pronounced as spelled. [37] Moreover, enunciation tends to be clipped, staccato and faster than on the Malay Peninsula, which is spoken at a more languorous pace.