After the war, Singapore went back to the pre-war GMT plus seven and a half hours, making it one of the few places with the odd half or quarter hour in its time difference with the rest of the world. Time had to be adjusted again during the Japanese Occupation with the introduction of Tokyo time and Singapore became nine hours ahead of GMT. When the daylight saving feature was instituted here in 1941, Singapore went seven and a half hours ahead of GMT. Ministry of Culture Collection, National Archives of SingaporeĪt the International Meridian Conference in 1884, the world was divided into 24 standard time zones and Singapore came to be seven hours ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Convert timezones and find the best time for your meeting in
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