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Indian Standard Time was adopted today in 1947

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 Seventy years ago, India first adopted Indian Standard Time (IST) #OnThisDay in 1947. 


Time zones were officially established in India in 1884, during the British rule. Two time zones - Bombay Time and Calcutta Time, were used -  due to the importance of these cities as commercial and economic centres. 


Today India’s time zone is calculated according to the longitude of 82.5° E. at Shankargarh Fort in Mirzapur (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh) as the central meridian for India. With a time offset of UTC+5:30, India is five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. 


Read more about #IST and it uses from this journal in our archive: http://www.ndl.gov.in/document/aVZOeWNnOU8zckVBa2U0ZUQyVFI5Rzk3MTFwZVVQZ0NlcnJJenNreDNGVT0http://www.ndl.gov.in/document/aVZOeWNnOU8zckVBa2U0ZUQyVFI5Rzk3MTFwZVVQZ0NlcnJJenNreDNGVT0


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Source: National Digital Library of India Facebook page

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