IST
India Standard Time
GMT +5:30
12am
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6am
9am
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3pm
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9pm
AST/ADT
Atlantic Standard Time
GMT -4
12am
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6am
9am
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9pm
ADT is not used on this date
This converter uses AST (GMT -4), the offset Moncton uses on this date. Open the AST converter.

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

Time Difference

India Standard Time is 9 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Atlantic Standard Time
5:30 pm17:30 in IST is 8:00 am08:00 in AST

IST to AST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5:30pm-6:30pm in IST which corresponds to 8am-9am in AST

5:30 pm17:30 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
8:00 am08:00 Atlantic Standard Time (AST). Offset UTC -4:00 hours

5:30 pm17:30 IST / 8:00 am08:00 AST

ISTAST
12am (midnight)2:30 pm
1am3:30 pm
2am4:30 pm
3am5:30 pm
4am6:30 pm
5am7:30 pm
6am8:30 pm
7am9:30 pm
8am10:30 pm
9am11:30 pm
10am12:30 am
11am1:30 am
12pm (noon)2:30 am
1pm3:30 am
2pm4:30 am
3pm5:30 am
4pm6:30 am
5pm7:30 am
6pm8:30 am
7pm9:30 am
8pm10:30 am
9pm11:30 am
10pm12:30 pm
11pm1:30 pm
00:0014:30
01:0015:30
02:0016:30
03:0017:30
04:0018:30
05:0019:30
06:0020:30
07:0021:30
08:0022:30
09:0023:30
10:0000:30
11:0001:30
12:0002:30
13:0003:30
14:0004:30
15:0005:30
16:0006:30
17:0007:30
18:0008:30
19:0009:30
20:0010:30
21:0011:30
22:0012:30
23:0013:30

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, Kolkata, Chennai.

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 Time Zone Geo Map
IST timezone map

IST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +0530 - basic
  • +05:30 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +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.
IANA/Olson: Reflects IST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Asia/Calcutta
  • Asia/Kolkata
IST Abbreviation: Several time zones share IST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • India Standard Time - UTC +5:30
  • Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
  • Israel Standard Time - UTC +2

Atlantic Daylight Time

Offset: ADT is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America

Countries using this time zone: Bermuda, Canada, Greenland

Principal Cities: The largest city in the ADT time zone is Halifax in Canada, with about 359,111 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Sydney, Dartmouth, Saint John, Moncton.

French: HAA - Heure Avancée de l'Atlantique

ADT Time Zone Geo Map
ADT timezone map

Daylight Saving: Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT) is a daylight saving/summer time zone, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Atlantic Standard Time (AST).

Daylight saving time clock moves forward for one hour from 2am to 3amEnd: Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT) ended on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of November

Daylight saving time clock moves back for one hour from 2am to 1amStart: Atlantic Daylight Time (ADT) starts on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March

ADT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -03 - basic short
  • -0300 - basic
  • -03:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0300 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of three hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Papa - Military abbreviation for ADT
  • P - short form of 'Papa'
IANA/Olson: Reflects ADT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • America/Glace_Bay
  • America/Goose_Bay
  • America/Halifax
  • America/Moncton
  • America/Thule
  • Atlantic/Bermuda
  • Canada/Atlantic
Time zones with the GMT -3 offset:
  • ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
  • PMT - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • AMST - Amazon Summer Time
  • ART - Argentina Time
  • BRT - Brasília time
  • CLST - Chile Summer Time
  • FKST - Falkland Islands Summer Time
  • GFT - French Guiana Time
  • P - Papa Time Zone
  • PYST - Paraguay Summer Time
  • SRT - Suriname Time
  • UYT - Uruguay Time