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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.
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2025a of the tz database. [2] Bond
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]
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 ).
Malaysia is a sovereign country located on the Malay Peninsula and a northern portion of the Island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. [1] It comprises 13 states and three federal territories with a total land area of 329,847 square kilometres (127,355 sq mi). [2] The capital of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal ...
Western Malesia includes the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo (area A in map 2). It shares the large mammal fauna of Asia and is known as Sundaland . These islands are on Asia's relatively shallow continental shelf , and were linked to Asia during the ice ages , when sea levels were lower.
The name Malaysia is a combination of the word Malays and the Latin-Greek suffix -ia/-ία [19] which can be translated as 'land of the Malays'. [20] Similar-sounding variants have also appeared in accounts older than the 11th century, as toponyms for areas in Sumatra or referring to a larger region around the Strait of Malacca. [21]