IST to CAT Converter
Time Difference
India Standard Time is 3 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Central Africa Time
5:00 am05:00 in IST is 1:30 am01:30 in CAT
IST to CAT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 11:30am-6pm in IST which corresponds to 8am-2:30pm in CAT
5:00 am05:00 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
1:30 am01:30 Central Africa Time (CAT). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
5:00 am05:00 IST / 1:30 am01:30 CAT
| IST | CAT |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 8:30 pm |
| 1am | 9:30 pm |
| 2am | 10:30 pm |
| 3am | 11:30 pm |
| 4am | 12:30 am |
| 5am | 1:30 am |
| 6am | 2:30 am |
| 7am | 3:30 am |
| 8am | 4:30 am |
| 9am | 5:30 am |
| 10am | 6:30 am |
| 11am | 7:30 am |
| 12pm (noon) | 8:30 am |
| 1pm | 9:30 am |
| 2pm | 10:30 am |
| 3pm | 11:30 am |
| 4pm | 12:30 pm |
| 5pm | 1:30 pm |
| 6pm | 2:30 pm |
| 7pm | 3:30 pm |
| 8pm | 4:30 pm |
| 9pm | 5:30 pm |
| 10pm | 6:30 pm |
| 11pm | 7:30 pm |
| 0:00 | 20:30 |
| 1:00 | 21:30 |
| 2:00 | 22:30 |
| 3:00 | 23:30 |
| 4:00 | 0:30 |
| 5:00 | 1:30 |
| 6:00 | 2:30 |
| 7:00 | 3:30 |
| 8:00 | 4:30 |
| 9:00 | 5:30 |
| 10:00 | 6:30 |
| 11:00 | 7:30 |
| 12:00 | 8:30 |
| 13:00 | 9:30 |
| 14:00 | 10:30 |
| 15:00 | 11:30 |
| 16:00 | 12:30 |
| 17:00 | 13:30 |
| 18:00 | 14:30 |
| 19:00 | 15:30 |
| 20:00 | 16:30 |
| 21:00 | 17:30 |
| 22:00 | 18:30 |
| 23:00 | 19:30 |
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
- Iran Standard Time - UTC +3:30
Central Africa Time
Offset: CAT is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa
Countries: It is used in following countries: Burundi, Botswana, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CAT timezone is Khartoum from Sudan with population about 1.975 million people. Other major cities in the area are Harare, Lubumbashi, Lusaka, Omdurman
Daylight Saving: Central Africa Time (CAT) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore CAT 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, Central Africa Time remains the same
CAT representations, usage and related time zones
- +02 - basic short
- +0200 - basic
- +02:00 - extended
- +0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates two hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for CAT
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Africa/Blantyre
- Africa/Bujumbura
- Africa/Gaborone
- Africa/Harare
- Africa/Juba
- Africa/Khartoum
- Africa/Kigali
- Africa/Lubumbashi
- Africa/Lusaka
- Africa/Maputo
- Africa/Windhoek
- CEST - Central European Summer Time
- EET - Eastern European Time
- MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
- B - Bravo Time Zone
- CAT - Central Africa Time
- IST - Israel Standard Time
- SAST - South Africa Standard Time
- WAST - West Africa Summer Time