ASEAN Common Time

Countries

ASEAN relation	Country	UTC offset	Acronym	Notes	More
ASEAN member state	Myanmar	+06:30	MMT		Time in Myanmar
ASEAN member state	Thailand	+07:00	ICT		Time in Thailand
ASEAN member state	Laos	+07:00	ICT		Time in Laos
ASEAN member state	Vietnam	+07:00	ICT	From 1975-06-13 after reunification	Time in Vietnam
ASEAN member state	Cambodia	+07:00	ICT		Time in Cambodia
ASEAN member state	Indonesia	+07:00 +08:00 +09:00	WIB WITA WIT	A single national time zone of UTC+08:00 may be in place by Independence Day (August 17), although some scientists favor leaving the east at UTC+09:00.	Time in Indonesia
ASEAN member state	Singapore	+08:00	SGT	From 1982-01-01	Time in Singapore
ASEAN member state	Malaysia	+08:00	MYT	Peninsular Malaysia switched from UTC+07:30 on 1982-01-01, and East Malaysia uses it since 1933, except for the Japanese Occupation during World War Two.	Time in Malaysia
ASEAN member state	Brunei	+08:00	BNT		Time in Brunei
ASEAN member state	Philippines	+08:00	PHT		Time in the Philippines
ASEAN observer	Timor-Leste	+09:00	TLT		Time in Timor-Leste
ASEAN observer	Papua-New Guinea	+10:00	PGT		Time in Papua-New Guinea
ASEAN Plus Three	Japan	+09:00	JST		Time in Japan
ASEAN Plus Three	South Korea	+09:00	KST		Time in South Korea
ASEAN Plus Three	China (People's Republic)	+08:00	CST		Time in China

Citations

• 2004-08-07 Abdullah Ahmad Badawi: "22. IN ORDER TO KEEP ASEAN WITH THE PEOPLE, THE ASEAN COMMUNITY WOULD NEED TO PRESENT ITSELF IN IMAGES AND SYMBOLS THAT ARE IDENTIFIABLY ASEAN IN CHARACTER. SOME POSSIBILITIES COME TO MIND, SUCH AS AN ASEAN COMMON TIME ZONE, AN ASEAN COMMON TRAVEL DOCUMENT OR, MORE AMBITIOUSLY, AN ASEAN COMMON CURRENCY. ALL THESE WOULD MAKE IT CLEAR TO THE PEOPLE THAT THE ASEAN COMMUNITY IS ACTUALLY ABOUT THEM.".
  • http://web.archive.org/web/20120204160513/http://www.aseansec.org/16300.htm
  • http://www.asean.org/news/item/address-of-his-excellency-dato-seri-abdullah-bin-haji-ahmad-badawi-the-prime-minister-of-malaysia-towards-an-asean-community-at-the-national-colloquium-on-asean

The Nation, December 1996: "...deferred a plan for the creation of a common Asean time zone ..." [1]

"The idea has since been under discussion by ASEAN, with Singapore supporting it strongly." [2]