IST to P Converter
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IST and P examples
These examples always use IST (UTC+5:30) and P (UTC-3). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.
IST is 8 hours and 30 minutes ahead of P.
How the time difference changes
IST is 8 hours and 30 minutes ahead of P year-round.
Working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in IST correspond to 12:30 am to 8:30 am in P.
Compare IST time with P time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
India Standard Time is 8 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Papa Time Zone
5:30 pm17:30 in IST is 9:00 am09:00 in P
IST to P call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5pm-6pm in IST which corresponds to 8:30am-9:30am in P
5:30 pm17:30 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
9:00 am09:00 Papa Time Zone (P). Offset UTC -3:00 hours
5:30 pm17:30 IST / 9:00 am09:00 P
| IST | P |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 3:30 pm |
| 1am | 4:30 pm |
| 2am | 5:30 pm |
| 3am | 6:30 pm |
| 4am | 7:30 pm |
| 5am | 8:30 pm |
| 6am | 9:30 pm |
| 7am | 10:30 pm |
| 8am | 11:30 pm |
| 9am | 12:30 am |
| 10am | 1:30 am |
| 11am | 2:30 am |
| 12pm (noon) | 3:30 am |
| 1pm | 4:30 am |
| 2pm | 5:30 am |
| 3pm | 6:30 am |
| 4pm | 7:30 am |
| 5pm | 8:30 am |
| 6pm | 9:30 am |
| 7pm | 10:30 am |
| 8pm | 11:30 am |
| 9pm | 12:30 pm |
| 10pm | 1:30 pm |
| 11pm | 2:30 pm |
| 00:00 | 15:30 |
| 01:00 | 16:30 |
| 02:00 | 17:30 |
| 03:00 | 18:30 |
| 04:00 | 19:30 |
| 05:00 | 20:30 |
| 06:00 | 21:30 |
| 07:00 | 22:30 |
| 08:00 | 23:30 |
| 09:00 | 00:30 |
| 10:00 | 01:30 |
| 11:00 | 02:30 |
| 12:00 | 03:30 |
| 13:00 | 04:30 |
| 14:00 | 05:30 |
| 15:00 | 06:30 |
| 16:00 | 07:30 |
| 17:00 | 08:30 |
| 18:00 | 09:30 |
| 19:00 | 10:30 |
| 20:00 | 11:30 |
| 21:00 | 12:30 |
| 22:00 | 13:30 |
| 23:00 | 14:30 |
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, 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
Papa Time Zone
Offset: P is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Military
Daylight Saving: Clocks in Papa Time Zone (P) do not change for daylight saving time, so P stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.
P representations, usage and related time zones
- -03 - basic short
- -0300 - basic
- -03:00 - extended
- -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.
- Papa - Military abbreviation for P
- P - short form of 'Papa'
- 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