Blackhead Point Signal Tower, where a time ball was used in the 19th century and early 20th century to announce time.
Traditional Chinese
香港時間
Simplified Chinese
香港时间
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Xiānggǎng Shíjiān
IPA
[ɕjáŋkàŋ ʂɻ̩̌tɕjɛ́n]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Hoeng1gong2 si4gaan3
Hong Kong Time (abbreviation: HKT; Chinese: 香港時間; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 si4 gaan3) is the time in Hong Kong, observed at UTC+08:00 all year round.[1] The Hong Kong Observatory is the official timekeeper of the Hong Kong Time.[2] It is indicated as Asia/Hong_Kong in the IANA time zone database.
^Nautical Almanac Office (U S ) (17 May 2013). The Nautical Almanac for the Year 2014. Government Printing Office. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-16-091756-1. Archived from the original on 10 January 2018.
^Hong Kong Observatory, History of Hong Kong Time Service, archived from the original on 2010-11-27, retrieved 2010-10-19
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