Time zone question

[W.G.Ewald]

How many time zones are there in India? Why is there a GMT +5:30 zone, and not an even +5:00 or +6:00? Or is my Dell laptop just misinformed?

 

[trackwhack]

Just one sir. The 1.2 billion of us dont exactly have a country as big as the US to live in

 

[Bangalorean]

How many time zones are there in India? Why is there a GMT +5:30 zone, and not an even +5:00 or +6:00? Or is my Dell laptop just misinformed?

Just one time zone. There have been proposals recently, to create one more for the NorthEastern states. No progress on that so far...

 

[Tomcat]

only one Standard time zone is UTC/GMT +5:30 hours Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5° E longitude, from a clock tower in Mirzapur (25.15°N 82.58°E) (near Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh) which is nearly on the corresponding longitude reference line.[3]

In the tz database it is represented by Asia/Kolkata

 

[sayareakd]

one time zone at it saves us with lots of problems, but i must say in North East they should have different time zone.

 

[The Messiah]

so in wagah border soldiers of both countries are standing next to each other and for one soldier time is say 3pm and for other it is 3:30pm.

this never made sense to me.

 

[thakur_ritesh]

what india requires is 3 time zones.

1 for the west zone
2 for the north/central/south zones
3 east/north-east zones

all having 30mins time gap.

 

[The Messiah]

technically time is different for every person if you take into account the minutest details.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Just one sir. The 1.2 billion of us dont exactly have a country as big as the US to live in

Yes, India is slightly more than 1/3 the size of the US, but if your country were rotated 90 degrees you could have at least one more time zone, I think.

 

[Bangalorean]

Yes, India is slightly more than 1/3 the size of the US, but if your country were rotated 90 degrees you could have at least one more time zone, I think.

Well, actually the E-W extent of India is almost the same as the N-S. North to South, India measures 3214 km, and East to West 2,993 km. The difference is only around around 300 km...

 

[A.V.]

having stayed in a country with maximum number of time zones i suggest its best to ahve a central single time zone. it offers no benefit to have so many time zones .

what india can have is daylight saving time during winter for NE and eastern zones

 

[pmaitra]

Two Time-zones in India

Two Time-zones in India

If it were at all to be implemented, I would recommend the following.

I am, however, ambivalent on the issue.