Time in Vietnam
Reunified Vietnam follows Indochina Time, which is seven hours ahead of UTC, ICT is used all year round as Vietnam does not observe daylight saving time. Vietnam shares the same time zone with Thailand, Cambodia, Christmas Island, Laos, and Western Indonesia.
Vietnam referenced ISO 8601 under in 1998 and then created its own standard TCVN 6398-1:1998.
History
- After Phủ Liễn Observatory was built, French Indochina announced all states were part of 104°17′17″E longitude east of Paris meridian 2°20′14″E, or 106°37′30″E from Greenwich Mean Time from 00:00, 1 July 1906 onward.
- In 1911, Metropolitan France adopted UTC+00:00 as its official time, and used it until 1940, forcing French Indochina observed UTC+07:00 from 00:00, 1 May 1911.
- Following change in time zone of Vichy authorities, French Indochina was integrated to UTC+08:00 skipping 60 minutes at 23:00, 31 December 1942.
- The Empire of Japan occupied Vichy French Indochina fully. Indochinese regions thereafter followed Tokyo time zone, skipping 60 minutes at 23:00, 14 March 1945.
- By August General Uprising, the Fall of Empire of Vietnam and the Proclamation of Independence of the [Democratic Republic of Vietnam], Provisional Uniform Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam took control, announcing UTC+07:00 as official time zone on 2 September 1945. Whilst, the then under-attack regions of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia adopted UTC+08:00 and non-attacked regions adopted UTC+07:00 from April 1, 1947: Laos from 15 April 1954, Hanoi from October 1954, Haiphong from May 1955.
- Under control of State of Vietnam, South Vietnam adopted UTC+07:00 from 00:00, 1 July 1955.
- South Vietnam time zone was changed to UTC+08:00 from 23:00, 31 December 1959, passing 60 minutes.
- North Vietnam confirmed official UTC+07:00 from 1 January 1968.
- Following the Fall of Saigon in April–May 1975, reunified Vietnam then observes UTC+07:00 with Saigon delaying 60 minutes on 13 June 1975.
Time in [French Indochina]
Time in [North Vietnam]
Time in [South Vietnam]
Time in Reunified Vietnam
IANA time zone database
The IANA time zone database contains one zone for Reunified Vietnam in the file list of [tz database time zones|zone.tab], named Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh. For timestamps in North Vietnam back to 1970, the database uses the Asia/Bangkok entry.| Notes | - |
| linked back to Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh | |