ASEAN Common Time

ASEAN Common Time is an idea by ASEAN to adopt a standard time of UTC+08 for all member countries. Some businesses with a local or regional reach have already adopted the use of the "ASEAN Common Time", and can be seen using the abbreviation '"ACT"' in their Press Releases, communications, and legal documents. There are also ASEAN citizens who have started using ACT in their sites and blogs.^{[citation needed]}

As of 2008^[update] time zones used by ASEAN countries are UTC+06:30, UTC+07, UTC+08 and UTC+09.

ASEAN relation	Country	Offset from UTC	Notes	More
ASEAN member	Indonesia	UTC+07:00, UTC+08:00, UTC+09:00		Time in Indonesia
ASEAN member	Brunei	UTC+08:00
ASEAN member	Malaysia	UTC+08:00	Peninsular Malaysia switched from UTC+07:30 on 1982-01-01, East Malaysia since 1933 except for Japanese occupation.	Time in Malaysia
ASEAN member	Philippines	UTC+08:00		Time in the Philippines
ASEAN member	Singapore	UTC+08:00	since 1982-01-01	Time in Singapore
ASEAN member	Cambodia	UTC+07:00
ASEAN member	Laos	UTC+07:00
ASEAN member	Thailand	UTC+07:00	tried to switch in 2001	Time in Thailand
ASEAN member	Vietnam	UTC+07:00
ASEAN member	Myanmar	UTC+06:30
ASEAN observer	Timor-Leste	UTC+09:00
ASEAN observer	Papua New Guinea	UTC+10:00
ASEAN Plus Three	People's Republic of China	UTC+08:00		Time in China
ASEAN Plus Three	Japan	UTC+09:00		Time in Japan
ASEAN Plus Three	South Korea	UTC+09:00

Citations

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi: "...IN ORDER TO KEEP ASEAN WITH THE PEOPLE, ... SOME POSSIBILITIES COME TO MIND, SUCH AS AN ASEAN COMMON TIME ZONE ..." [1].

External links

• "Press Statement The First Informal ASEAN Heads of Government Meeting Jakarta" (Press release). 1996-11-30. http://www.aseansec.org/5206.htm. 
• "Joint Communique of The 29th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) Jakarta, 1996-07-20/21". http://www.aseansec.org/1824.htm. 
• Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (2004-08-07). "Towards an ASEAN Community" (speech). http://www.aseansec.org/16300.htm. 

Sites using ACT

Companies

• Asian media Development Group

Sites

• Lineage II South-East Asia (L2-SEA) official site
• ASEAN - Asia's Perfect 10
• gameshogun.ws Blognet

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