Indian Standard Time
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time zone, observed in India and Sri Lanka; UTC+05:30
Key facts
- Ist
- UTC+05:30
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- replaces
- Port Blair mean time
- UTC timezone offset
- 5.5
- inception
- 1906-01-01
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time or other seasonal adjustments. In military and aviation time, IST is designated E* ("Echo-Star"). It is indicated as Asia/Kolkata in the IANA time zone database.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Indian Standard Time” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.