. "National Standard Time (Chinese: \u570B\u5BB6\u6A19\u6E96\u6642\u9593; pinyin: Gu\u00F3ji\u0101 Bi\u0101ozh\u01D4n Sh\u00EDji\u0101n; Pe\u030Dh-\u014De-j\u012B: Kok-ka Piau-ch\u00FAn S\u00EE-kan, see below) is the official time zone in Taiwan defined by an UTC offset of +08:00. This standard is also known as Taiwan Time (\u81FA\u7063\u6642\u9593), Taipei Time (\u81FA\u5317\u6642\u9593) and historically as Chungyuan Standard Time (\u4E2D\u539F\u6A19\u6E96\u6642\u9593) until the early 2000s."@en . .