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Indian Standard Time
time zone, observed in India and Sri Lanka; UTC+05:30 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time zone for India and Sri Lanka. It is 5 hours and 30 minutes forward to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+5:30). It does not use Daylight Saving Time (DST).