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On 15 September 1951, Dacca Time (DACT) was introduced in East Bengal, which was UTC+06:00 achieved by subtracting 30 minutes from UTC+06:30. This is the official time zone in use today. [1] [3] On 30 September 1951, Dacca Time was officially implemented in East Bengal. [4]
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). It includes countries and regions that observe them during standard time or year-round.
UTC+10:00 – Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands UTC+12:00 (WAKT) – Wake Island: Time in the United States: Antarctica: 10: UTC−03:00 – Palmer Station, Rothera Station UTC+00:00 – Troll Station UTC+03:00 – Syowa Station UTC+05:00 – Mawson Station UTC+06:00 – Vostok Station UTC+07:00 – Davis Station
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 ...
Sun 29 October 02:00: 1971 Sun 31 October 02:00: BST all year ends: IST all year ends 1970 BST all year: IST all year 1969 BST all year: IST all year 1968 Sun 18 February 01:00: BST all year begins: IST all year begins 1967 Sun 19 March 02:00: Sun 29 October 02:00: 1966 Sun 20 March 02:00: Sun 23 October 02:00: 1965 Sun 21 March 02:00: Sun 24 ...
Time Zone Abbreviation [8] Notes Ref ASEAN members Myanmar +06:30: MMT: Some experts suggest that moving to UTC+07:00, rather than UTC+08:00, would be a more natural change. Myanmar Standard Time Thailand +07:00: ICT: Tried unsuccessfully to switch to UTC+08:00 in 2001 by then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The issue remains under discussion.
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]
Time zone abbreviations for both Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time are shown exactly as they appear in the database. See strftime and its "%Z" field. Some of zone records use 3 or 4 letter abbreviations that are tied to physical time zones, others use numeric UTC offsets.