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Time Difference
Central European Summer Time is 3 hours and 30 minutes behind India Standard Time
5:30 pm17:30 in CEST is 9:00 pm21:00 in IST
CEST to IST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-2:30pm in CEST which corresponds to 11:30am-6pm in IST
5:30 pm17:30 Central European Summer Time (CEST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
9:00 pm21:00 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
5:30 pm17:30 CEST / 9:00 pm21:00 IST
| CEST | IST |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 3:30 am |
| 1am | 4:30 am |
| 2am | 5:30 am |
| 3am | 6:30 am |
| 4am | 7:30 am |
| 5am | 8:30 am |
| 6am | 9:30 am |
| 7am | 10:30 am |
| 8am | 11:30 am |
| 9am | 12:30 pm |
| 10am | 1:30 pm |
| 11am | 2:30 pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 3:30 pm |
| 1pm | 4:30 pm |
| 2pm | 5:30 pm |
| 3pm | 6:30 pm |
| 4pm | 7:30 pm |
| 5pm | 8:30 pm |
| 6pm | 9:30 pm |
| 7pm | 10:30 pm |
| 8pm | 11:30 pm |
| 9pm | 12:30 am |
| 10pm | 1:30 am |
| 11pm | 2:30 am |
| 0:00 | 3:30 |
| 1:00 | 4:30 |
| 2:00 | 5:30 |
| 3:00 | 6:30 |
| 4:00 | 7:30 |
| 5:00 | 8:30 |
| 6:00 | 9:30 |
| 7:00 | 10:30 |
| 8:00 | 11:30 |
| 9:00 | 12:30 |
| 10:00 | 13:30 |
| 11:00 | 14:30 |
| 12:00 | 15:30 |
| 13:00 | 16:30 |
| 14:00 | 17:30 |
| 15:00 | 18:30 |
| 16:00 | 19:30 |
| 17:00 | 20:30 |
| 18:00 | 21:30 |
| 19:00 | 22:30 |
| 20:00 | 23:30 |
| 21:00 | 0:30 |
| 22:00 | 1:30 |
| 23:00 | 2:30 |
Central European Summer Time
Offset: CEST is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries: It is used in following countries: Andorra, Albania, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Gibraltar, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, Slovenia, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Slovakia, San Marino, Vatican City
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CEST timezone is Berlin from Germany with population about 3.426 million people. Other major cities in the area are Madrid, Rome, Paris, Budapest
German: MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
Daylight Saving: Central European Summer Time (CEST) is a daylight saving/summer timezone, however during winter some places switch clocks for one hour back and observe Central European Time (CET).
Start: Central European Summer Time (CEST) started on Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 31, 2024, 3:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually the on last Sunday of March
End: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ends on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 3:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, October 27, 2024, 2:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually the on last Sunday of October
CEST representations, usage and related time zones
W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
- +02 - basic short
- +0200 - basic
- +02:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
- +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.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for CEST
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
IANA/Olson: Reflects CEST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
- Africa/Ceuta
- Arctic/Longyearbyen
- Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
- CET
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Europe/Andorra
- Europe/Belgrade
- Europe/Berlin
- Europe/Bratislava
- Europe/Brussels
- Europe/Budapest
- Europe/Busingen
- Europe/Copenhagen
- Europe/Gibraltar
- Europe/Ljubljana
- Europe/Luxembourg
- Europe/Madrid
- Europe/Malta
- Europe/Monaco
- Europe/Oslo
- Europe/Paris
- Europe/Podgorica
- Europe/Prague
- Europe/Rome
- Europe/San_Marino
- Europe/Sarajevo
- Europe/Skopje
- Europe/Stockholm
- Europe/Tirane
- Europe/Vaduz
- Europe/Vatican
- Europe/Vienna
- Europe/Warsaw
- Europe/Zagreb
- Europe/Zurich
- Poland
Time zones with the GMT +2 offset:
- 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
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
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 five hour and thirty minutes time differences 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
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