IST to ACST Converter
ACST is NOT in use by many locations
ACDT (Australian Central Daylight Time) is used instead. Switch to ACDT time zone or select one of the cities Adelaide, Darwin, Adelaide Hills for automatic timezone change.Time Difference
India Standard Time is 4 hours behind of Australian Central Standard Time
5:30 am05:30 in IST is 9:30 am09:30 in ACST
IST to ACST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-2pm in IST which corresponds to 12pm-6pm in ACST
5:30 am05:30 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
9:30 am09:30 Australian Central Standard Time (ACST). Offset UTC +9:30 hours
5:30 am05:30 IST / 9:30 am09:30 ACST
IST | ACST |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 4am |
1am | 5am |
2am | 6am |
3am | 7am |
4am | 8am |
5am | 9am |
6am | 10am |
7am | 11am |
8am | 12pm (noon) |
9am | 1pm |
10am | 2pm |
11am | 3pm |
12pm (noon) | 4pm |
1pm | 5pm |
2pm | 6pm |
3pm | 7pm |
4pm | 8pm |
5pm | 9pm |
6pm | 10pm |
7pm | 11pm |
8pm | 12am (midnight) |
9pm | 1am |
10pm | 2am |
11pm | 3am |
0:00 | 4:00 |
1:00 | 5:00 |
2:00 | 6:00 |
3:00 | 7:00 |
4:00 | 8:00 |
5:00 | 9:00 |
6:00 | 10:00 |
7:00 | 11:00 |
8:00 | 12:00 |
9:00 | 13:00 |
10:00 | 14:00 |
11:00 | 15:00 |
12:00 | 16:00 |
13:00 | 17:00 |
14:00 | 18:00 |
15:00 | 19:00 |
16:00 | 20:00 |
17:00 | 21:00 |
18:00 | 22:00 |
19:00 | 23:00 |
20:00 | 0:00 |
21:00 | 1:00 |
22:00 | 2:00 |
23:00 | 3:00 |
India Standard Time
Offset: IST is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: India
Principal Cities: The largest city in the IST timezone is Mumbai from India with population about 12.692 million people. Other major cities in the area are Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai
Daylight Saving: India Standard Time (IST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore IST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, India Standard Time remains the same

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 five hour and thirty minutes time differences 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
Australian Central Standard Time
Offset: ACST is 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Australia
Countries: It is used in following countries: Australia
Principal Cities: The largest city in the ACST timezone is Adelaide from Australia with population about 1.225 million people. Other major cities in the area are Darwin, Adelaide Hills, Alice Springs, Palmerston
Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places adjust time for one hour forward for daylight saving and observe Australian Central Daylight Time (ACDT).
End: ACST ended and clocks were set one hour forward on Sunday, 04 October 2020, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.
Start: ACST starts and clocks are set one hour back on Sunday, 04 April 2021, at 3:00 (3:00 am) local time.

ACST representations, usage and related time zones
- +0930 - basic
- +09:30 - extended
- +0930 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (09) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates nine hour and thirty minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Australia/Adelaide
- Australia/Broken_Hill
- Australia/Darwin
- Australia/North
- Australia/South
- Australia/Yancowinna