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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]
The time 8:45 may be spoken as "eight forty-five" or "(a) quarter to nine". [19] In older English, it was common for the number 25 to be expressed as "five-and-twenty". [20] In this way the time 8:35 may be phrased as "five-and-twenty to 9", [21] although this styling fell out of fashion in the later part of the 1900s and is now rarely used. [22]
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
The euro sign (€) is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and adopted, although not required to, by Kosovo and Montenegro.The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996.
The Malaysia–Singapore Second Link (Malay: Laluan Kedua Malaysia–Singapura, Chinese: 马新第二通道) is a bridge connecting Singapore and Johor, Malaysia. In Singapore, it is officially known as the Tuas Second Link .
During this time, its nominal per capita income increased from US$64 annually to US$2,601, and its literacy rate from 16.6% to 74%. A comparatively destitute country in 1951, [ 62 ] India has become a fast-growing major economy and a hub for information technology services ; it has an expanding middle class. [ 63 ]
Time magazine listed Gates as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century in 1999, as well as one of the 100 most influential people in 2004, 2005, and 2006 respectively. [ 251 ] Time also collectively named Gates, his wife Melinda and U2's lead singer Bono as the 2005 Persons of the Year for their humanitarian efforts. [ 252 ]
The economy of the State of California is the largest in the United States, with a $4.080 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2024. [1] It is the largest sub-national economy in the world.