UTC+05:00
identifier for a time offset from UTC of +5:00
UTC+05:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +05:00. This time is used in:
As standard time (year-round)
Principal cities: Astana, Almaty, Kokshetau, Tashkent, Ashgabat, Dushanbe, Malé, Yekaterinburg, Martin-de-Viviès, Port-aux-Français, Aktobe, Atyrau, Kyzylorda, Aktau, Islamabad, Karachi
South Asia
Maldives – Time in the Maldives
Pakistan - Time in Pakistan
Central Asia
Kazakhstan – Time in Kazakhstan
Tajikistan – Time in Tajikistan
Turkmenistan – Time in Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan – Time in Uzbekistan
Eastern Europe
Russia – Yekaterinburg Time
Volga Federal District
Bashkortostan, Orenburg Oblast and Perm Krai
Ural Federal District
Chelyabinsk Oblast, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Kurgan Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Tyumen Oblast and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Antarctica
Southern Ocean
France
Kerguelen Islands
Île Saint Paul and Île Amsterdam
Australia
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Some bases in Antarctica. See also Time in Antarctica.
Australia
Mawson Station
Russia
Vostok Station
Armenia and Azerbaijan used this as daylight saving time (DST) in 1981–2012 and 1981–2016 respectively, called Armenia Summer Time (AMST) and Azerbaijan Summer Time (AZST).
Discrepancies between official UTC+05:00 and geographical UTC+05:00
Areas in UTC+05:00 longitudes using other time zones
Using UTC+08:00:
China
Parts of western areas in the country, including western Xinjiang province (Kashgar) (although most locals observe UTC+06:00)
Using UTC+07:00:
Russia
Most parts of Novosibirsk Oblast
Partly of Tomsk Oblast
Using UTC+06:00:
Kyrgyzstan
British Indian Ocean Territory
Russia
Omsk Oblast
Using UTC+05:45:
Nepal
Parts of western in the country, including:
Sudurpashchim
mostly part of Karnali
western part of Lumbini
Using UTC+05:30:
Sri Lanka
India, with parts of its territories:
Gujarat
Rajasthan
Punjab
Ladakh
Uttarakhand
Maharashtra
Telangana
Karnataka
Kerala
Haryana
Tamil Nadu
Himachal Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Delhi, including nation's capital New Delhi
A smaller parts of Odisha
Most parts of Uttar Pradesh
Most parts of Andhra Pradesh
Southwest of Chhattisgarh
Using UTC+04:30:
Afghanistan
Eastern parts, where the nation's capital Kabul is
Using UTC+03:00:
Russia
The very east of Severny Island with 69°2' E as the easternmost point
Areas outside UTC+05:00 longitudes using UTC+05:00 time
Areas between 82°30' E and 97°30' E ("physical" UTC+06:00)
Russia
The very easternmost parts of Ural Federal District
Kazakhstan
Parts of East Kazakhstan
Areas between 52°30' E and 67°30' E ("physical" UTC+04:00)
Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan
Aktobe
Kyzylorda
Kostanay
parts of Mangystau, Atyrau, and West Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Most parts, including Samarkand
Pakistan
Western parts, including Karachi
Russia
Most parts of Ural Federal District
Areas between 37°30' E and 52°30' E ("physical" UTC+03:00)
Russia
Western tip of Perm Krai
Western parts of the Orenburg Oblast
Historical time offsets
Kyrgyzstan adopted this time zone as its standard time from 2 May 1924 to 21 June 1930, and from 31 March 1991 to 12 August 2005.
“UTC+05:00” enters the record as identifier for a time offset from UTC of +5:00. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what identifier, time and offset can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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