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Taiwan Time is same as the time zone that China, Hong Kong and Macau follow. Taiwan Time runs 8 hours ahead of GMT, i.e. the Greenwich Mean Time. China is divided into five major time zones and Taiwan falls into one.
To calculate the Taiwan Time from any point on earth one needs to add 8 hours to the exact Greenwich Mean Time. Daylight saving time is not observed in Taiwan.
A brief idea of the Taiwan Time difference from different location of the world is given below:
Taiwan Time runs two hours late than that of Australian Capital Territory, Taiwan has a time difference of 12 hours from that of New York in United States of America. Taiwan runs 12 hours ahead of United States of America. Taiwan time observes a time difference of 7 hours from that of United Kingdom. United Kingdom also lags seven hours behind from that of United Kingdom. If compared to all the places mentioned above the least time difference of Taiwan is with Japan that is Japan runs only an hour ahead of the Taiwan time. Taiwan is 2 hours and 30 minutes ahead of the Indian Standard time.
So, if a meeting is planned to all the places mentioned above, the time difference should be kept in mind and the meeting should be arranged accordingly.
All the above time differences are given on the basis of Greenwich Mean Time as all the time zones are measured from Greenwich Mean Time. Greenwich Mean Time is also known as Universal Time Zone at times.
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