| Japan Standard Time | |
|---|---|
| Time zone | |
| UTC offset | |
| JST | UTC+09:00 |
| Current time | |
| 05:37, 22 November 2024 JST [refresh] | |
| Observance of DST | |
| DST is not observed in this time zone. | |
| Japan Standard Time | |||||
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| Japanese name | |||||
| Kanji | 日本標準時 | ||||
| Kana | にほん ひょうじゅんじ にっぽん ひょうじゅんじ | ||||
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Japan Standard Time (日本標準時, Nihon Hyōjunji, JST), or Japan Central Standard Time (中央標準時, Chūō Hyōjunji, JCST), is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+09:00).[1] Japan does not observe daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated on several occasions. During World War II, the time zone was often referred to as Tokyo Standard Time.
Japan Standard Time is equivalent to Korean Standard Time, Pyongyang Time (North Korea), Eastern Indonesia Standard Time, East-Timorese Standard Time, Palau Time, and Yakutsk Time (Russia).
- ^ Time and Date (13 September 2020). "Current Local Time in Japan". Retrieved 12 September 2020. There is a difference between GMT and UTC which can be as much as 0.9 seconds. Japan now legally uses an atomic clock synchronized to UTC.