Indian Standard Time

E5066

standard time time zone

Indian Standard Time is the time zone used throughout India, set at UTC+5:30.

Aliases (4)

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	standard time → time zone →
abbreviation	IST →
appliesToSector	broadcast scheduling → civil timekeeping → government administration → transport timetables →
appliesToWholeCountry	India →
coordinatedBy	National Physical Laboratory of India →
country	India →
differenceFromBangladeshStandardTime	−0:30 →
differenceFromChinaStandardTime	−2:30 →
differenceFromLondonTimeInSummer	+4:30 →
differenceFromLondonTimeInWinter	+5:30 →
differenceFromNepalTime	−0:15 →
differenceFromPakistanStandardTime	+0:30 →
differenceFromUSEasternDaylightTime	+9:30 →
differenceFromUSEasternStandardTime	+10:30 →
differenceFromUTCNoonToIST	IST is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC →
DSTPolicy	no daylight saving time observed →
governingBody	Government of India →
hasFixedOffset	true →
IANAZoneName	Asia/Kolkata →
introduced	1947 →
introducedAfterEvent	Independence of India →
isSingleTimeZoneForCountry	India →
legalStatus	official civil time of India →
observesDST	false →
offsetFromCoordinatedUniversalTime	+5:30 →
offsetFromGreenwichMeanTime	+5:30 →
previousTimeSystemsIncluded	Bombay Time → Calcutta Time → Madras Time →
principalMeridian	82.5°E →
principalMeridianDescription	82°30′ east of Greenwich →
principalMeridianPassesNear	Mirzapur →
principalMeridianState	Uttar Pradesh →
referenceCity	Kolkata →
region	South Asia →
timeNotation	12-hour clock (common) → 24-hour clock (official) →
typicalColloquialName	Indian time →
usedBy	India → Sri Lanka (historically and intermittently) →
usesDaylightSavingTime	no →
UTCOffset	+05:30 →
UTCOffsetHours	5.5 →

Referenced by (248)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Agatti → Aligarh → Allahabad → Ambala → Amini → Andaman and Nicobar Islands → Andhra Pradesh → Anjuna Beach → Arcot → Arunachal Pradesh → Assam → Aurangabad → Ayodhya → Bangalore Urban district → Barak Valley → Bareilly → Bellary → Bengaluru → Bhadrachalam → Bharatpur → Bihar → Bitra → Bombay Stock Exchange → Calcutta → Calicut → Campbell Bay National Park → Car Nicobar → Chennai → Chhattisgarh → Cochin → Coimbatore → Colva Beach → Corbyn’s Cove Beach → Cuttack → Cyberabad → Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu → Delhi → Dharamshala → Dibrugarh → Doaba → Eastern India → Erode → Gir National Park → Gujarat → Guntur → Guwahati → Gwalior → HITEC City → Haridwar → Haryana → Himachal Pradesh → Hoshangabad → Howrah → Hyderabad → India → Jaipur → Jamnagar → Jhansi → Jharkhand → Jorhat → Junagadh → Kalpeni → Karad → Kashi Vishwanath Temple → Kerala → Kheda district → Kota → Kumaon → Kutch → Laccadive Islands (Lakshadweep) → Ladakh → Ledo, Assam, India → Little Andaman Island → Madurai → Maharashtra → Majha → Mandi → Manipur → Marina Beach → Meerut → Meghalaya → Middle Andaman Island → Mirzapur → Mizoram → Mumbai → Mysuru → Nagaland → Nagapattinam → Nagpur → Nagwa → National Capital Region of India → National Capital Territory of Delhi → National Stock Exchange of India → New Delhi → Nicobar Islands → North Andaman Island → North Sentinel Island → North and Middle Andaman district → Palashi → Panaji → Panipat → Pathankot → Puducherry → Puducherry (parts) → Pune → Rajasthan → Ratnagiri → Ritchie’s Archipelago → Rohtak district → Sangli → Santiniketan → Sarnath → Satara → Sentinelese → Shillong → Sikar → Sonipat district → South India → Srirangapatna → Surat → Tamil Nadu → Tanjore → Telangana → Tiruchirappalli → Tripura → Udaipur → Uttarakhand → Varanasi → Vijayawada → Wardha district → West Bengal → Whitefield →	timeZone
Agra Municipal Corporation → Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority → Akhnur → Alwar → Ambala Central Jail → Andaman Islands → Andaman district → Andrott → Arrah → Ballia district → Baramati → Barwani → Bhilwara → Bombay High Court → Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike → CEPT University → Campbell Bay → Chamba → Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport → Chief Minister of Haryana → Dahod → Darbhanga district → Department of Space (India) → Electronics City → Faizabad → Faridabad district → Fort William, Kolkata → Galathea National Park → Ghaziabad → Government of Andaman and Nicobar Islands → Greater Chennai Corporation → Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation → Hinjawadi IT Park → Jeru → Jodhpur → Kadmat → Karnataka High Court → Kavaratti → Little Nicobar → Lucknow → M. Chinnaswamy Stadium → Madhubani district → Mumbai Harbour → Mumbai Suburban district → Nadiad → Nanded → Nashik → National Capital Region → National War Memorial Southern Command → Nehru Memorial Museum and Library → New Delhi Municipal Council → Nicobar district → Pluto Island → Porbandar Nagarpalika → Port Blair → Port Blair Airport → Pune International Airport ("Asia/Kolkata") → Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority → Raichur → Raj Niwas, Port Blair → Rajahmundry → Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium → Rajpipla → Ring Road, Delhi → Sevagram → Sitamarhi district → South Andaman Island → Supaul district → Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly → Tezpur → Trichinopoly → Veer Savarkar International Airport → Vizagapatam → West Bengal → Wipro Limited → Writers’ Building → Yamunanagar district →	locatedInTimeZone
Agra → Ahmedabad → Ahmedabad Junction railway station → Chandigarh → Chetlat → Connaught Place → Dehradun → Gurugram → Hisar district → Jabalpur → Kanpur → Karnal district → Kashi → Kiltan → Kurukshetra district → Mathura → Moradabad → Panipat district → Porbandar → Rajkot → Saharsa district → Silchar → Sriharikota → Srinagar →	timezone
Bombay Time → Calcutta Time → Madras Time →	replacedBy
Bombay Time → Calcutta Time →	coexistedWith
Bombay Time → Calcutta Time →	usedBefore
Sri Lanka Standard Time ("India Standard Time") →	followsSameOffsetAs
National Physical Laboratory of India ("Indian national time scale") →	hasStandard
Dandi →	hasTimezone
Indian Standard Time ("Asia/Kolkata") →	IANAZoneName
Israel Standard Time ("India Standard Time") →	isDistinctFrom
Madras Port →	regionTimeZone
Madras Time →	relatedTo
Indian Standard Time ("Indian time") →	typicalColloquialName