GMT to IST Converter
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8:17 pm GMT (UTC+0), Apr 22, 2020 = 1:47 am IST (UTC+5:30), Apr 23, 2020
GMT is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind IST.
GMT and IST examples
These examples always use GMT (UTC+0) and IST (UTC+5:30). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.
GMT is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind IST.
How the time difference changes
GMT is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind IST year-round.
Working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in GMT correspond to 2:30 pm to 10:30 pm in IST.
Compare GMT time with IST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Greenwich Mean Time is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind India Standard Time
8:17 pm20:17 in GMT is 1:47 am01:47 in IST
GMT to IST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-11:30am in GMT which corresponds to 2:30pm-5pm in IST
8:17 pm20:17 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
1:47 am01:47 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
8:17 pm20:17 GMT / 1:47 am01:47 IST
| GMT | IST |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 5:30 am |
| 1am | 6:30 am |
| 2am | 7:30 am |
| 3am | 8:30 am |
| 4am | 9:30 am |
| 5am | 10:30 am |
| 6am | 11:30 am |
| 7am | 12:30 pm |
| 8am | 1:30 pm |
| 9am | 2:30 pm |
| 10am | 3:30 pm |
| 11am | 4:30 pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 5:30 pm |
| 1pm | 6:30 pm |
| 2pm | 7:30 pm |
| 3pm | 8:30 pm |
| 4pm | 9:30 pm |
| 5pm | 10:30 pm |
| 6pm | 11:30 pm |
| 7pm | 12:30 am |
| 8pm | 1:30 am |
| 9pm | 2:30 am |
| 10pm | 3:30 am |
| 11pm | 4:30 am |
| 00:00 | 05:30 |
| 01:00 | 06:30 |
| 02:00 | 07:30 |
| 03:00 | 08:30 |
| 04:00 | 09:30 |
| 05:00 | 10:30 |
| 06:00 | 11:30 |
| 07:00 | 12:30 |
| 08:00 | 13:30 |
| 09:00 | 14:30 |
| 10:00 | 15:30 |
| 11:00 | 16:30 |
| 12:00 | 17:30 |
| 13:00 | 18:30 |
| 14:00 | 19:30 |
| 15:00 | 20:30 |
| 16:00 | 21:30 |
| 17:00 | 22:30 |
| 18:00 | 23:30 |
| 19:00 | 00:30 |
| 20:00 | 01:30 |
| 21:00 | 02:30 |
| 22:00 | 03:30 |
| 23:00 | 04:30 |
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries using this time zone: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is Abidjan in Ivory Coast, with about 6.321 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Bamako, Dakar, Kumasi, Ouagadougou.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.
GMT representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Africa/Abidjan
- Africa/Accra
- Africa/Bamako
- Africa/Banjul
- Africa/Bissau
- Africa/Conakry
- Africa/Dakar
- Africa/Freetown
- Africa/Lome
- Africa/Monrovia
- Africa/Nouakchott
- Africa/Ouagadougou
- Africa/Sao_Tome
- Africa/Timbuktu
- America/Danmarkshavn
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
- Atlantic/St_Helena
- Eire
- Etc/GMT
- Etc/GMT+0
- Etc/GMT-0
- Etc/GMT0
- Etc/Greenwich
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Dublin
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- GMT
- GMT+0
- GMT-0
- GMT0
- Greenwich
- Iceland
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
India Standard Time
Offset: IST is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries using this time zone: India
Principal Cities: The largest city in the IST time zone is Mumbai in India, with about 12.692 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata.
Daylight Saving: Clocks in India Standard Time (IST) do not change for daylight saving time, so IST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.
IST representations, usage and related time zones
- +0530 - basic
- +05:30 - extended
- +0530 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours and thirty minutes to the east of the zero meridian.
- Asia/Calcutta
- Asia/Kolkata
- India Standard Time - UTC +5:30
- Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
- Israel Standard Time - UTC +2