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6:00 pm18:00 BST (UTC+6), Oct 23, 2026 = 7:00 pm19:00 ICT (UTC+7), Oct 23, 2026

BST is 1 hour behind ICT.

BST and ICT examples

These examples always use BST (UTC+6) and ICT (UTC+7). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

BST is 1 hour behind ICT.

How the time difference changes

BST Asia is 1 hour behind ICT year-round.

Working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in BST Asia correspond to 10:00 am to 7:00 pm in ICT.Working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in BST Asia correspond to 10:00 to 19:00 in ICT.

Compare BST time with ICT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Bangladesh Standard Time is 1 hour behind Indochina Time.
6:00 pm18:00 in BST is 7:00 pm19:00 in ICT

BST to ICT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-5pm09:00-17:00 in BST which corresponds to 10am-6pm10:00-18:00 in ICT

6:00 pm18:00 Bangladesh Standard Time (BST). Offset UTC +6:00 hours
7:00 pm19:00 Indochina Time (ICT). Offset UTC +7:00 hours

6:00 pm18:00 BST / 7:00 pm19:00 ICT

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Bangladesh Standard Time

Offset: BST is 6 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Bangladesh

Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST time zone is Dhaka in Bangladesh, with about 10.357 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Chattogram, Gazipur, Khulna, Rangpur.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Bangladesh Standard Time (BST) do not change for daylight saving time, so BST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

BST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +06 - basic short
  • +0600 - basic
  • +06:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0600 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of six hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Foxtrot - Military abbreviation for BST
  • F - short form of 'Foxtrot'
BST Abbreviation: Several time zones share BST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • British Summer Time - UTC +1
  • Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
  • Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
Time zones with the GMT +6 offset:
  • BST - Bangladesh Standard Time
  • BDT - Bangladesh Time
  • BTT - Bhutan Time
  • F - Foxtrot Time Zone
  • IOT - Indian Chagos Time
  • KGT - Kyrgyzstan Time
  • OMST - Omsk Standard Time
  • XJT - Xinjiang Time
  • YEKST - Yekaterinburg Summer Time

Indochina Time

Offset: ICT is 7 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

Principal Cities: The largest city in the ICT time zone is Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, with about 14.003 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Hanoi, Bangkok, Haiphong, Phnom Penh.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Indochina Time (ICT) do not change for daylight saving time, so ICT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

ICT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +07 - basic short
  • +0700 - basic
  • +07:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0700 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (07) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of seven hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Golf - Military abbreviation for ICT
  • G - short form of 'Golf'
Time zones with the GMT +7 offset:
  • CXT - Christmas Island Time
  • DAVT - Davis Time
  • G - Golf Time Zone
  • HOVT - Hovd Time
  • ICT - Indochina Time
  • KRAT - Krasnoyarsk Time
  • NOVST - Novosibirsk Summer Time
  • NOVT - Novosibirsk Time
  • OMSST - Omsk Summer Time
  • WIB - Western Indonesian Time