North Korea has switched to a new time zone, turning its clocks back by 30 minutes to mark its liberation from the Japanese at the end of WW2.
Bells rang out in the capital Pyongyang at midnight on Friday as the new time zone came into effect.
North Korea announced the move earlier this week, surprising South Korea whose president warned it ran counter to efforts to foster co-operation.
The North had been nine hours ahead of GMT - like South Korea and Japan.
But before being colonised by Japan in 1910, the entire Korean peninsula - then one country - was 8.5 hours ahead of GMT.
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