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In 1981, Malaysia decided to standardise the time across its territories to a uniform UTC+08:00. Singapore elected to follow suit, citing business and travel schedules. [14] [15] The change took effect on New Year's Day (1 January) 1982 when Singapore moved half an hour forward on New Year's Eve (31 December) 1981 at 11:30 pm creating "Singapore Standard Time" (SST) or "Singapore Time" (SGT). [16]
Until 1985, subscribers' telephone numbers in Singapore were five and six digits. Five digits were introduced in 1960s, whereas 5-digit and 6-digit phone numbers were introduced in 1960s as fixed lines grew, but in that year, these changed to seven digits as the introduction of new towns arose (Tampines, Jurong East, Bukit Batok, Yishun and Hougang) and a large number of new numbers were required.
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
Recently, there have emerged a number of unconventional abbreviations, such as A*STAR for Agency for Science, Technology and Research.) When SAFTI (Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute) was reorganised in 1995, it acquired the name SAFTI Military Institute , further abbreviated as SAFTI MI , which when fully expanded would form a rather ...
The ASEAN Common Time (ACT) is a proposal to adopt a standard time for all Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was proposed in 1995 by Singapore , and in 2004 and 2015 by Malaysia to make business across countries easier.
News Tonight (formerly News 5 Tonight, News 5 and before 1994 as just News) is a Singaporean English language news programme broadcast by Mediacorp Channel 5 since its inception, providing a round-up of all the day's events around Singapore, as well as coverage of breaking news and occasional global stories relevant to Singaporeans.
The facility ID number, also called a FIN or facility identifier, is a unique integer number [1] of one to six digits, [2] assigned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Media Bureau [1] to each broadcast station in the FCC Consolidated Database System (CDBS) and Licensing and Management System (LMS) databases, among others.
Singapore Tonight is a Singapore English long-running main flagship daily main evening nightly television news bulletin programme on Mediacorp CNA since its inception which runs daily from 10:00pm to 11:00pm Singapore Time (9:00pm to 10:00pm Jakarta Time) on weekdays, and 10:00pm to 10:30pm Singapore Time (9:00pm to 9:30pm Jakarta Time) on weekends/public holidays, providing a round-up of all ...