Hong Kong Time
| Hong Kong Time | |
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| Time zone | |
| UTC offset | |
| BT | UTC+08:00 |
| Current time | |
| 12:08, 16 March 2026 BT [refresh] | |
| Observance of DST | |
| DST is not observed in this time zone. | |
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Blackhead Point Signal Tower, where a time ball was used in the 19th century and early 20th century to announce time. | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 香港時間 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 香港时间 | ||||||||||||||
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Hong Kong Time (abbreviation: HKT; Chinese: 香港時間; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 si4 gaan3) is the time in Hong Kong, observed at UTC+08:00 all year round. The Hong Kong Observatory is the official timekeeper of the Hong Kong Time.
Hong Kong adopted daylight saving measures in 1941. However, the practice eventually declined in popularity and was eliminated after 1979.
It is indicated as Asia/Hong_Kong in the IANA time zone database.