A vessel departs Singapore at 23:15 local time – so that the port authority in Rotterdam, the customs system in Hamburg, and the consignee's tracking platform all read the same timestamp, the logistics industry relies on UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
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