Time zone
UTC+05:30 2008: blue (December), orange (June), yellow (year-round), light blue (sea areas)UTC+5:30 is an identifier for atime offset from UTC of +05:30. This time is used inIndia[1] andSri Lanka,[2] and was formerly used inNepal,Pakistan andBangladesh.[3] It is five and a half hours ahead ofCoordinated Universal Time. Around 1.4 billion people live inside this time zone, making it the second-most populous afterUTC+08:00.[4]
As standard time (year-round)
[edit]Principal cities:Delhi,Mumbai,Chennai,Kolkata,Bengaluru,Hyderabad,Ahmedabad,Pune,Surat,Jaipur,Kanpur,Lucknow,Coimbatore,Indore,Kochi,Guwahati,Madurai,Tiruchirappalli,Ludhiana,Visakhapatnam,Patna,Varanasi,Bhubaneswar,Srinagar,Puducherry,Port Blair,Colombo,Jaffna,Trincomalee,Kandy
