Though India does not observe Daylight Saving Time, it was observed briefly during the Sino-Indian war in 1962 and the Indo-Pakistani wars in 19 respectively, so that energy consumption by civilians would be reduced.ġ858: Court of Directors of the East India Company held its last meeting in the East India House in London.ġ942: Indian National Army was founded by Rash Behari Bose.ġ956: Pakistani forces crossed the ceasefire line in Kashmir.» Click here for IST to Local Time Conversion. The Central Observatory was moved from Chennai to Mirzapur so that it would be closer to the UTC+5:30. This came into force on 1st January 1906, though Kolkata and Mumbai maintained their own time zone until 19, respectively.Īfter Independence, on 1st September 1947, the Indian Government declared the Indian Standard Time as the official time for the entire country (except Kolkata and Mumbai which were to maintain their own time zones for some time to come). Every time India gives Pakistan something big To name a few, just recently India gave Pakistan the 'most favoured nation' status and gave easy of visa. DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has offered India to utilise the countrys ports in Chattogram and Sylhet, asserting that it would boost connectivity. Chaturdashi Mar 30Ram Navami National Holidays in India All states and territories of India observe national holidays. The meridian passing east of Allahabad was picked as the central meridian for India. Below is a list of public holidays in India. It was not until 1905 that British India adopted standardized time zones.
Another time zone, the Port Blair Time Zone was established, which was 49 minutes and 51 seconds ahead to the Madras Time.
Kolkata time was set 5 hours, 30 minutes and 21 seconds in advance of the Greenwich Mean Time and Mumbai time was 4 hours, 51 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.īy the late 1880’s the railways had begun to use the Madras Time (which had come to be known as Railway Time) as an intermediate between the two time zones. Accordingly, India would have two time zones Kolkata using the 90th East Meridian and Mumbai the 75th East Meridian. The International Meridian Conference in Washington DC in 1884 established uniform time zones for across the world. In the 19th century, the railways began to synchronize their clocks through a time signal which would be sent by the head office at a specific time every day. Being the headquarters of the most important presidencies of British India, Mumbai and Kolkata time assumed importance and began to be adopted by nearby provinces and princely states. This was when it became crucial to have a unified time zone. Following this, as opposed to earlier when a day would begin at sunrise, a day now began at midnight.ĭespite this, most towns and cities continued using their own local times until the introduction of the railways in the 1850’s. This was the first time that a current time zone had been used. In 1802, the first official astronomer of the British East India Company, John Goldingham established the longitude of Chennai as 13★′24″N, 80☁8′30″E, which was five hours and thirty minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. The Madras Observatory was established by the British East India Company in 1792 primarily because of the efforts of Michael Topping, a sailor and astronomer. An early example of this is the Jantar Mantar constructed by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh in 1733 in Jaipur which has large sundials (up to 90 feet high) which were used to accurately calculate local time. In ancient India, kingdoms used Hindu calenders to keep their own local time. Despite these early advancements standard time was not used other than in astrology. The book also elaborates that Rohatika and Avanti are situated on a line which passes through the Equator (76° E) and the North Pole.Ī sidereal day in ancient India began with sunrise at the Prime Meridian in Ujjain and then was divided into smaller time units. The book outlined that the Prime Meridian passed through Avanti (ancient name for the city of Ujjain) at 23☁1′N 75☄5′E and Rohitaka (ancient name for Rohtak) at 28★4′N 76☃8′E. Assuming to which, the earth is spherical. Earlier in the 4th century CE, an astronomical treatise “Surya Siddhanta” had mentioned about Standard Time in India.
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