Time in India since after independence in 1947 is officially represented by the Indian Standard Time (IST, UTC+05:30). Some older time zones were:
- Bombay time (UTC+04:51),
- Calcutta time (UTC+05:30:21),
- Madras time (UTC+05:30)
- Port Blair mean time.
The official time signal is given by the Time and Frequency Standards Laboratory. The IANA time zone database contains only one zone, namely Asia/Kolkata. During the Sino–Indian War of 1962 and the Indo–Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971, daylight saving was briefly used to reduce civilian energy consumption. The Date and time notation in India shows some specialties.
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