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UTC+08:00
Time zone
World map with the time zone highlighted
UTC offset
UTC	UTC+08:00
Current time
00:52, 27 May 2024 UTC+08:00 [ refresh ]
Central meridian
120 degrees E
Date-time group
H

Time in Indonesia

Map of time zones of Indonesia
Western Indonesia Time UTC offset	UTC+07:00
Central Indonesia Time UTC offset	UTC+08:00
Eastern Indonesia Time UTC offset	UTC+09:00
Adopted	1 January 1988
Time notation	24-hour clock
tz database	Asia/ Jakarta · Asia/ Pontianak · Asia/ Makassar · Asia/ Jayapura

UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00.

With an estimated population of 1.708 billion living within the time zone, roughly 21% of the world population, it is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time .

This time zone is used in all predominantly Chinese-speaking regions , giving international Chinese websites and TV channels the same time.

In Indonesia, it is known as Central Indonesian Time ( Indonesian : Waktu Indonesia Tengah / WITA ) while in Western Australia, it is known as Australian Western Standard Time .

As standard time (year-round) [ edit ]

Principal cities: Shanghai , Beijing , Guangzhou , Hangzhou , Suzhou , Xiamen , Shenzhen , Taipei , Taichung , Kaohsiung , Hong Kong , Macau , Kuala Lumpur , Singapore , Manila , Quezon City , Makassar , Denpasar , Manado , Perth , Irkutsk , Ulaanbaatar , Bandar Seri Begawan

North Asia [ edit ]

• Russia ? Irkutsk Time ^[1]
  • Far Eastern Federal District
    • Buryatia
  • Siberian Federal District
    • Irkutsk Oblast

East Asia [ edit ]

• Mainland China ? China Standard Time
• Hong Kong ? Hong Kong Time (Hong Kong Standard Time)
• Macau ? Macau Time (Macau Standard Time)
• Taiwan ? National Standard Time
• Mongolia ? Time in Mongolia ^[2]
  • Eastern part, including Dornod , Sukhbaatar , Ulaanbaatar

Southeast Asia [ edit ]

• Brunei ? Brunei Darussalam Standard Time
• Indonesia ? Central Indonesia Time ^{[3] [4]}
  • Parts of Kalimantan :
    • East Kalimantan
    • North Kalimantan
    • South Kalimantan
  • Lesser Sunda Islands
    • Bali
    • East Nusa Tenggara
    • West Nusa Tenggara
  • All provinces in Sulawesi
• Malaysia ? Malaysia Standard Time
• Philippines ? Philippine Standard Time
• Singapore ? Singapore Standard Time

Oceania [ edit ]

• Australia
  • Western Australia (except Eucla and nearby areas, including Caiguna , Cocklebiddy , Madura and Mundrabilla , unofficially observes UTC+08:45 ^[5] )

Antarctica [ edit ]

Southern Ocean [ edit ]

• Some bases in Antarctica . See also Time in Antarctica .
• Australia
  • Casey Station

Discrepancies between official UTC+08:00 and geographical UTC+08:00 [ edit ]

This section is only partly updated for longitudes using other time zones. This concerns areas within 112°30′ E to 127°30′ E longitude.

• Parts of Russia, including very easternmost parts of Krasnoyarsk Krai , where UTC+07:00 is used, and Zabaykalsky Krai and most of western Sakha Republic where UTC+09:00 is used.
• Parts of Indonesia, including eastern East Java with its capital city Surabaya , most of Central Kalimantan with its capital city Palangka Raya , and eastern part of West Kalimantan , where UTC+07:00 is used, and some of the western islands in the province of Maluku and North Maluku where UTC+09:00 is used.
• East Timor, where UTC+09:00 is used.
• Parts of Okinawa Prefecture , Japan, including Sakishima Islands with its westernmost point Yonaguni , western parts of Kerama Islands , and some islands of the western Okinawa Islands , where UTC+09:00 is used.
• The western parts of Korea , including the North Korean capital city, Pyongyang and South Korean capital city, Seoul , where UTC+09:00 is used.

Areas outside UTC+08:00 longitudes using UTC+08:00 time [ edit ]

Areas between 127°30′ E and 142°30′ E ("physical" UTC+09:00) [ edit ]

• Parts of northeast China including the eastern half of Heilongjiang Province and the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin Province.
• Easternmost parts of Western Australia.

Areas between 97°30′ E and 112°30′ E ("physical" UTC+07:00) [ edit ]

• Singapore
• Malaysia:
  • Western part of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo .
  • Peninsular Malaysia , where the nation's capital Kuala Lumpur is located.
• Many parts of central China including:
  • Hainan
  • Guangxi
  • Yunnan
  • Guizhou
  • Sichuan
  • Chongqing
  • Shaanxi
  • Ningxia
  • Gansu
  • Western two-third of Hunan
  • Western half of:
    • Hubei
    • Shanxi
    • Inner Mongolia , including its capital Hohhot .
  • western third of:
    • Guangdong
    • Henan
• Most of central Mongolia including the capital Ulaanbaatar .
• In Russia, most of:
  • Irkutsk Oblast
  • Buryatia

Areas between 82°30′ E and 97°30′ E ("physical" UTC+06:00) [ edit ]

• Parts of China
  • Most of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (although many locals set their clocks at UTC+06:00 even if it is officially UTC+08:00, in any case work and shop schedules are two hours after Shanghai and Beijing). ^[6] See also Time in China .
  • most of Tibet Autonomous Region
• Western Mongolia.

Areas between 67°30′ E and 82°30′ E ("physical" UTC+05:00) [ edit ]

• Parts of western China including western Xinjiang province ( Kashgar ) (although most locals observe UTC+06:00 even if it is officially UTC+08:00).

Historical time offsets [ edit ]

The southern half of Vietnam ( Republic of Vietnam ) was formerly part of this time zone prior to the national reunification on 30 April 1975, making it one hour ahead of North Vietnam . After 1975, the whole country came under the North Vietnamese time zone, UTC+07:00.

According to Presidential Decree 41/1987, Indonesia's ex-province of Timor Timur used this time zone with neighboring East Nusa Tenggara and other provinces in Lesser Sunda Islands, parts of Kalimantan and Sulawesi ^[7] until independence as East Timor , which the country changed to UTC+09:00 as the official time zone.

See also [ edit ]

• Time in Australia
• Time in Cambodia
• Time in Laos
• Time in Russia
• Time in Vietnam
• Xinjiang Time

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Media related to UTC+08:00 at Wikimedia Commons
• History of Hong Kong Time Service Archived 2009-05-22 at the Wayback Machine