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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]
This time zone is used in the states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, and most of Amazonas.Although this time zone covers about 36% of the land area of Brazil (an area larger than Argentina), only about 6% of the country's population live there (about 12 million people, slightly more than the city of São Paulo). [2]
UTC−11:00 (ST) – American Samoa, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll and Palmyra Atoll. UTC−10:00 (HT) – Hawaii, most of the Aleutian Islands, and Johnston Atoll. UTC−09:00 (AKT) – Most of the state of Alaska. UTC−08:00 (PT) – Pacific Time zone: the Pacific coast states, the Idaho Panhandle and most of Nevada and Oregon.
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+8), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−5), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−6), 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 an earlier ...
Contents. List of tz database time zones. The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [ 1 ] This is a list of time zones from release 2024b of the tz database. [ 2 ]
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).
Daylight saving time by country. Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks during part of the year, typically by one hour around spring and summer, so that daylight ends at a later time of the day. As of 2024, DST is observed in most of Europe, most of North America and parts of Africa and Asia ...
Brazil–India relations. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, November 2019. Brazil–India relations also referred to as Indo-Brazilian relations, are the bilateral relations between Brazil and India. Brazil was the first Latin American nation to establish diplomatic relations with India in 1948.