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15-812: The fourth of the five original channels of Star TV, Star Chinese Channel was launched on 21 October 1991 at 16:30 Hong Kong Time as STAR TV Chinese Channel, the channel originally targeted audiences in Greater China , broadcasting in both Mandarin and Cantonese . Star Chinese Channel was launched as a 24-hour Mandarin Chinese variety entertainment channel that the channel showcased full Chinese language content provided by ATV in Hong Kong broadcasting from Mainland China ; also showed television series from other Greater China countries including China , Hong Kong , Macau , Taiwan and Singapore . It

30-519: Is the equation of time . Local mean time was used from the early 19th century, when local solar time or sundial time was last used until standard time was adopted on various dates in the several countries. Each town or city kept its own meridian , so locations one degree of longitude apart had times four minutes apart. This became a problem in the mid 19th century when railways needed clocks for railway time that were synchronized between stations, while local people needed to match their clock (or

45-678: Is the official timekeeper of the Hong Kong Time. It is indicated as Asia/Hong_Kong in the IANA time zone database . In Hong Kong , Hong Kong Time is defined in the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap 1), Laws of Hong Kong. Section 67(2) of the Ordinance states that: "Hong Kong Time" ( 香港時間 ) means the time used for general purposes throughout Hong Kong namely, 8 hours, or such other period as may be determined by

60-577: The Asian markets, they had made the decision to shutting down their entire cable TV networks , including Star Chinese Channel. The channel already ceased in operation in Southeast Asia , Hong Kong and Macau on October 1, 2023, awhile Taiwan are the final country to closing down Star Chinese Channel (alongside their sister channel, Star Entertainment Channel) on January 1, 2024. The channel in Taiwan

75-526: The Legislative Council by resolution under this subsection or under section 16 of the Oil (Conservation and Control) Ordinance (Cap 264), in advance of Universal Standard Time. Currently, Hong Kong time is defined as UTC+08:00 . The reference in section 67(2) to the Oil (Conservation and Control) Ordinance is actually a power given to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong to change Hong Kong Time for

90-529: The channel's business was moved from British Hong Kong to Taipei on 30 June 1997. Shiau Hong-chi says that the original business for Star TV was to broadcast popular American shows to Taiwanese audience with as less effort as possible. Shiau then argues that however the plan was unsuccessful and Star TV had to invest on localized branches such as Chinese Channel and Channel V Taiwan and make local shows. As Disney, who had previously brought FOX International Networks , decided to further enrolled Disney+ across

105-532: The clock is based on the primary standard used by Japan's Communications Research Laboratory . In 1994, the atomic clock was replaced with a newer model. Current Hong Kong Time can be obtained from the Observatory's Network Time Server Archived 2014-03-14 at the Wayback Machine . Hong Kong adopted daylight saving measures in 1941. However, the practice eventually declined in popularity and

120-477: The importance of the time ball decreased. It was decommissioned on 30 June 1933. During the Second World War , the equatorial mount and transit circle were lost. After the war, a pendulum clock was installed and regulated by radio time signals from other timekeeping centres. Timing accuracy gradually improved from the daily engineering tolerance of a few seconds to one-fifth of a second. In 1966,

135-624: The pendulum clock in the Royal Observatory Hong Kong was replaced by a crystal oscillator timing system. In the same year, the Royal Observatory started to broadcast the time directly with a 6-pip time signal on 95 MHz. This continued until 16 September 1989. In 1980, the Royal Observatory adopted a timing system based on a Caesium beam atomic clock . This system narrowed the engineering tolerance down to less than 1 millisecond . The frequency standard of

150-535: The purposes of conserving oil, i.e. to implement daylight saving time. However, no daylight saving time has been observed since 1979. The Hong Kong Time was first set to Local Mean Time (GMT+07:36:42) on 1 January 1885 at 13:00 by the then Royal Observatory Hong Kong. In 1904, the Greenwich Mean Time was adopted as the basis for Hong Kong Time, the time was set at 8 hours in advance of Greenwich Mean Time. The current Coordinated Universal Time system

165-478: Was adopted as an official time standard on 1 January 1972. However, the legal Hong Kong Time still remained based on Greenwich Mean Time until it was changed to Universal Standard Time in 1998 after the Hong Kong handover . From 1885, Hong Kong Time was determined by astronomical observations at the Hong Kong Observatory using a 6-inch equatorial mount and a 3-inch Transit Circle . The time

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180-596: Was also the first commercial broadcasting-owned channel to broadcast in Taiwan . It was a free-to-air channel , but at some point, Star TV encrypted the channel. The channel was previously broadcast across Greater China on 30 March 1996 at 19:00 Hong Kong Time, Star TV split STAR TV Chinese Channel by certain areas and reduced its broadcasting area to just Taiwan (Viewers in Greater China apart from Taiwan were offered Phoenix Chinese Channel instead). At one point,

195-590: Was announced to the general public, particularly mariners, by dropping a 6-feet diameter time ball from a mast exactly at 13:00 daily in front the Marine Police Headquarters Compound , where it is visible from the Victoria Harbour . In January 1908, the time ball was relocated to the hill of Blackhead Point where it had even higher visibility. With the rise of radio broadcast and the launching of Radio Hong Kong in 1922,

210-500: Was eliminated after 1979. Asia/Hong_Kong Local Mean Time Local mean time ( LMT ) is a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time , forming a uniform time scale at a specific longitude . This measurement of time was used for everyday use during the 19th century before time zones were introduced beginning in the late 19th century; it still has some uses in astronomy and navigation. The difference between local mean time and local apparent time

225-436: Was later replaced by KMTV following the closure. Australia, New Zealand: 21 October 1991–2018 USA and Canada: 21 October 1991–2018 Middle East, South Africa and UK: 21 October 1991–30 September 2023 Hong Kong Time 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

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