Singapore Time

[1] As part of the Straits Settlements, Singapore originally adopted the Malayan Time, which was GMT+07:30 in 1941.

[4] At the end of World War II and the return of the Straits Settlements to the British, Singapore reverted to its pre-war time zone.

[4] Although Singapore does not currently observe daylight saving time in the traditional sense due to its tropical location, a form of daylight saving time, using a 20-minute offset, was introduced on an annual basis by the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements in 1933.

[16] SST is 8 hours ahead of UTC and is synchronised with Beijing, Hong Kong, Manila, Shanghai, Taipei and Perth.

[21] In the early days, Singapore used a timeball on Fort Canning and Mount Faber for sailors to check with their chronometers by the falling ball at exactly 1 p.m daily.