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The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
In 1981, Malaysia decided to standardise the time across its territories to a uniform UTC+08:00. Singapore elected to follow suit, citing business and travel schedules. [14] [15] The change took effect on New Year's Day (1 January) 1982 when Singapore moved half an hour forward on New Year's Eve (31 December) 1981 at 11:30 pm creating "Singapore Standard Time" (SST) or "Singapore Time" (SGT). [16]
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
India uses only one time zone (even though it spans two geographical time zones) across the whole nation and all its territories, called Indian Standard Time (IST), which equates to UTC+05:30, i.e. five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). India does not currently observe daylight saving time (DST or summer time).
+10:30 +11:00 +1030 +11 backward Link to Australia/Lord_Howe: AU: Australia/Lindeman: Queensland (Whitsunday Islands) Canonical +10:00 +10:00: AEST: australasia AU: Australia/Lord_Howe: Lord Howe Island Canonical +10:30 +11:00 +1030 +11 australasia This is the only time zone in the world that uses 30-minute DST transitions. AU: Australia ...
UTC+5:30 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +05:30. This time is used in India [ 1 ] and Sri Lanka , [ 2 ] and was formerly used in Nepal , Pakistan and Bangladesh . [ 3 ] It is five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time .
Between the end of the Second World War and the formation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963, it was known as British Malayan Standard Time, which was GMT+07:30. At 2330 hrs local time of 31 December 1981, people in Peninsular Malaysia adjusted their clocks and watches ahead by 30 minutes to become 00:00 hours local time of 1 January 1982, to ...
Israel Standard Time (IST) (Hebrew: שעון ישראל Sha'on Yisra'el, lit. ' Clock of Israel ' ) is the standard time zone in Israel . It is two hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+02:00 ).