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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).
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]
Pahar/pehar/peher is derived from Sanskrit word prahar which is an ancient unit of time in India. The word pahar/peher has the same root as the Hindustani word pehra (meaning "to stand guard") and pehredar (literally "guard/watchman"). [2] It literally means a "watch" (i.e. period of guard-duty).
Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical region to a single time standard, rather than a local mean time standard. Generally, standard time agrees with the local mean time at some meridian that passes through the region, often near the centre of the region.
Evening in Parambikkulam, Kerala, India View on the bay of Naples, overlooking Mount Vesuvius at 7:30 p.m. local solar (standard) time Evening is the period of a day that begins at the end of daylight and overlaps with the beginning of night. [1]
This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00).
Mondays are the start of the week as per ISO 8601. Traditionally, Sunday (Ravivar) is considered as the first day of the week in India and the official calendar published by the Government of India shows the day order from Sunday to Saturday with Monday depicted as the start of workweek with weekends falling on Saturday and Sunday. [6]