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The Northern Territory, a town called Broken Hill in New South Wales, and South Australia observe Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) and it has an offset of UTC + 9:30. There are some areas of Australia that observe a non-standard time zone. During Daylight Saving, the area switches to an offset of UTC - 2:30. Newfoundland in Canada uses Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) which has an offset of UTC - 3:30. Many cities in Myanmar - which is located in Southeast Asia - use an offset of UTC + 6:30. Iran Standard Time is designated as UTC + 3:30, and Iran Daylight Time is designated as UTC + 4:30. Iran uses Iran Standard Time (IRST) during winter months and Iran Daylight Time (IRDT) during summer months while Daylight Saving is active. See the description of India's time zone above to better understand the time difference between this time zone and Coordinated Universal Time.Īfghanistan observes Afghanistan Time (AFT) and it has an offset of UTC + 4:30.

This means they use a standard time with an offset of thirty minutes from UTC.

Sri Lanka adopted Indian Standard Time - used in India - in April 2006. India does not observe Daylight Saving, so the same time standard is used year round. They observe the Indian Standard Time (IST) which has an offset of thirty minutes from Coordinated Universal Time.Īs an example, at 12:00 AM in an area using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it is 5:30 AM in India.Ĭlick here -> India Time Zone Conversion to see the above time conversion in action. Oddly enough, despite its vast size, all of India uses one time zone. Locations that use non standard time zones include India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar, Newfoundland, Regions of Australia, Venezuela, Nepal, Chatham Islands, and the Marquesas Islands.

See our description of time zones in India below for a better explanation. People traveling to and from areas of the world that use unusual time zones may become confused or have trouble discerning the local time.Ī great example of this is in India, where despite only being a half an hour different from Coordinated Universal Time the time difference appears much larger. Many of them are in increments of a half hour, different from the usual hour difference you normally see. There are some countries and regions that follow unusual time zones.