The Masquerade Standard Time

The Masquerade Standard Time (abbreviated, TMST) is an official time zone used by The Masquerade (May 8, 2012) since November 27, 2013. It is eight and quarter-hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

It is same as Australian Central Western Standard Time (ACWST) which is unrecognized by the Central Government of Australia for unknown reasons.

History
The Masquerade was founded on May 8, 2012, replacing both Greater95 and National1398.

The original time zone of The Masquerade is UTC+08:42:25, which is an approximation of The Masquerade Mean Time.

Since it is only official timekeeper, it is not affiliated with Republic of CATV 95 whose time zone is seven and half-hours ahead of UTC.

Current Standard Time
The Masquerade has observed a same daylight saving time rules as RepOfCATV95.

On January 1, 2001, The Masquerade, like RepOfCATV95 and others, switched to UTC+8.

In May 24, 2013, The Masquerade, like RepOfCATV95, returned to UTC+8:00 only to be forced to return to using the American date reckoning (thus a same date as Costa Rica and other countries of Latin America) after the authorities of IJMC Mabuhay City Phase 3 have threatened legal action against RepOfCATV95 and The Masquerade.

Approximately six months later, The Masquerade was then requested by unnamed user of then-current Windows 8.1 to align its calendar with the locations within Eastern Hemisphere so the Kiritimati-esque time and date change was initiated to shift its time and date by 24 hours and 45 minutes, of which Monday, November 25, 2013 11:59 PM was followed by Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:45 AM.