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sets shortly after 19:00 in much of the eastern part of the country (in Tokyo, the latest sunset of the entire year is 19:01, from 26 June to 1 July, despite being at 35°41'N latitude). Since 2000, a few local governments and commerce departments have promoted unmandated hour-earlier work schedule experiments during the summer without officially resetting clocks.
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region is particularly in favour of this movement because daylight starts as early as 03:30 (in standard time) there in summer due to its high latitude and its location near the eastern edge of the time zone, with much of the region's solar time actually closer to UTC+10:00. Because of this, the sun
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This map shows the difference between legal time and local mean time in Japan and its neighborhood. Eastern part of Hokkaido is over 30 minutes behind and western part of Ryukyu islands is over 30 minutes ahead of local solar time as a single standard time offset of UTC+09:00 is observed in whole
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and because of this, a train that departed from Tokyo would arrive at Osaka 20 minutes behind the time in Tokyo. In 1886, Ordinance 51 was issued in response to this problem, which stated:
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proposed permanently moving the country's time zone ahead by 2 hours to better align global markets and make Japan's stock market to be the first to open in the world at any given time.
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residences by 0.13%, with a 0.02% saving due to lighting more than outweighed by a 0.15% increase due to cooling costs; the simulation did not examine non-residential buildings.
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Starting in the late 1990s, a movement to reinstate DST in Japan gained some popularity, aiming at saving energy and increasing recreational time. The
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Longitudes are calculated using the prime meridian, counting 180 degrees either east or west. Positive degrees are east, negative degrees are west.
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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.
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made a significant effort to introduce daylight saving time, but was ultimately unsuccessful. However, it is not clear that DST would
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era (1868–1912), each local region had its own time zone in which noon was when the sun was exactly at its
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From 1948 to 1952, Japan observed daylight saving time (DST) between May and September every year. The
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is expected to propose that the Japanese government begin studying DST in an attempt to help combat
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in 1895, Ordinance 167 (pictured on the right) was issued to rename the previous Standard Time to
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in Japan. A 2007 simulation estimated that introducing DST to Japan would increase energy use in
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of GMT+08:30 continued to be used until 1912, when it was changed to Central Standard Time.
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The two-time-zone system was implemented in Japan between January 1896 and September 1937:
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Ordinance 51 (on the precise calculation of time using the Prime Meridian) – July 13, 1886
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will be set as the standard meridian for all of Japan, allowing precise times to be fixed.
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From October 1937, Central Standard Time was also used in western Okinawa and Taiwan.
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is located exactly on 135 degrees east longitude and subsequently became known as
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Imperial Ordinance 167 issued on December 27, Meiji 28 (1895)
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country of Japan, even in its easternmost territory,
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Index

Japanese Standard Time
Japan Time (TV series)
Time zone
UTC+09:00
JST
DST

time zone
Japan
UTC+09:00
World War II
Korean Standard Time
Pyongyang Time
North Korea
Eastern Indonesia Standard Time
East-Timorese Standard Time
Palau Time
Yakutsk Time
Russia
Meiji
culmination
Tokyo
Osaka
prime meridian
Greenwich Observatory
135 degrees east longitude

Akashi Municipal Planetarium
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standard time

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