Comments on: Why India’s Time Zone Is 30 Minutes Off From (Most Of) The Rest Of The World https://foxnomad.com/2017/11/07/indias-time-zone-30-minutes-off-rest-world/ tech and tips to help you travel smarter Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:44:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: TIROD https://foxnomad.com/2017/11/07/indias-time-zone-30-minutes-off-rest-world/#comment-984875 Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:44:48 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=35681#comment-984875 The entire problem in the western world is that the Greenwich Meridian is 30 minutes off – placing an observatory there doesn’t mean they are ground zero for parity in the average midpoint of the day. Hence, when Daylight Savings Time is put into affect every summer, we get jerked around at the severity of the change – which is always touted for Business, not family.

The best answer is to set it 30 minutes off – that way the change during the year is also spit evenly – which is the natural progress of our seasons anyway. By doing so we set a better median with less disturbance and which could be more wholly accepted worldwid.

]]> By: John in SC https://foxnomad.com/2017/11/07/indias-time-zone-30-minutes-off-rest-world/#comment-835637 Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:41:53 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=35681#comment-835637 Eventually, the international businesses in India might push for India to have two time zones instead of one, so that it would be easier to make connections with the rest of the world, but I don’t see that as happening soon because there are conveniences to an entire country being in one zone (when nobody is more than 30 minutes off of “sun” time.

Good question.

]]> By: Dana Bell https://foxnomad.com/2017/11/07/indias-time-zone-30-minutes-off-rest-world/#comment-730764 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:10:41 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=35681#comment-730764 In reply to Cs.

No question is a bad question. His question is very legitimate as the article above mentions there was little beside politics or logics that came into play with which countries decided to adopt as time zones – India thus could very well decide to adopt a different system. China for instance only has one time zone across the whole country when the geo zone spans several time zones. Don’t belittle people for asking questions.

]]> By: Cs https://foxnomad.com/2017/11/07/indias-time-zone-30-minutes-off-rest-world/#comment-726440 Thu, 20 May 2021 16:20:27 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=35681#comment-726440 Atul R Laddu that is a bad question. Read the article. Unless India decides to change their time zone it will always be 30+/- off the hour other places use.

]]> By: Atul R Laddu https://foxnomad.com/2017/11/07/indias-time-zone-30-minutes-off-rest-world/#comment-699422 Thu, 21 May 2020 16:09:52 +0000 https://foxnomad.com/?p=35681#comment-699422 Is there any way that the time in India will not be a fraction (30 minutes), and a full number? The 30 minutes is very confusing.

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