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Calcutta Time. Calcutta Time was one of the two official time zones established in British India in 1884. It was established during the International Meridian Conference held at Washington, D.C. in the United States. It was decided that India had two time zones: Calcutta (now Kolkata) would use the 90th meridian east and Bombay (now Mumbai) the ...
Indian Standard Time. DST is not observed in this time zone. 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 ...
Time in India. DST is not observed in this time zone. 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).
The start of the 20th century saw some push from scientific associations to calibrate India’s time to GMT. The Royal Society in London proposed two time zones for India, both in full-hour ...
Kolkata, [a] also known as Calcutta [b] ( its official name until 2001 ), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, 80 km (50 mi) west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary financial and commercial centre of eastern and northeastern India. [16]
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. [3] It is five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. Around 1.4 billion people live inside this time zone, making it the second-most populous after UTC+08:00.
Bombay Time. Bombay Time was one of the two official time zones established in British India in 1884. The time zone was established during the International Meridian Conference held at Washington, D.C. in the United States in 1884. It was then decided that India would have two time zones, Calcutta (now Kolkata ), and Bombay (now Mumbai ).
Madras Time. Madras Time was a time zone established in 1802 by John Goldingham, the first official astronomer of the British East India Company in British India when he determined the longitude of Madras as 5 hours, 21 minutes and 14 seconds ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. [1] It has been described as 8 minutes and 46 seconds from UTC+05:30 [2 ...