IST to CST Asia
Time Difference
India Standard Time is 2 hours and 30 minutes behind China Standard Time
8:00 am08:00 in IST is 10:30 am10:30 in CST
IST to CST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-3:30pm in IST which corresponds to 10:30am-6pm in CST
8:00 am08:00 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
10:30 am10:30 China Standard Time (CST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
8:00 am08:00 IST / 10:30 am10:30 CST
| IST | CST |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 2:30 am |
| 1am | 3:30 am |
| 2am | 4:30 am |
| 3am | 5:30 am |
| 4am | 6:30 am |
| 5am | 7:30 am |
| 6am | 8:30 am |
| 7am | 9:30 am |
| 8am | 10:30 am |
| 9am | 11:30 am |
| 10am | 12:30 pm |
| 11am | 1:30 pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 2:30 pm |
| 1pm | 3:30 pm |
| 2pm | 4:30 pm |
| 3pm | 5:30 pm |
| 4pm | 6:30 pm |
| 5pm | 7:30 pm |
| 6pm | 8:30 pm |
| 7pm | 9:30 pm |
| 8pm | 10:30 pm |
| 9pm | 11:30 pm |
| 10pm | 12:30 am |
| 11pm | 1:30 am |
| 0:00 | 2:30 |
| 1:00 | 3:30 |
| 2:00 | 4:30 |
| 3:00 | 5:30 |
| 4:00 | 6:30 |
| 5:00 | 7:30 |
| 6:00 | 8:30 |
| 7:00 | 9:30 |
| 8:00 | 10:30 |
| 9:00 | 11:30 |
| 10:00 | 12:30 |
| 11:00 | 13:30 |
| 12:00 | 14:30 |
| 13:00 | 15:30 |
| 14:00 | 16:30 |
| 15:00 | 17:30 |
| 16:00 | 18:30 |
| 17:00 | 19:30 |
| 18:00 | 20:30 |
| 19:00 | 21:30 |
| 20:00 | 22:30 |
| 21:00 | 23:30 |
| 22:00 | 0:30 |
| 23:00 | 1:30 |
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
- +0530 - basic
- +05:30 - extended
- +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.
- Asia/Calcutta
- Asia/Kolkata
- India Standard Time - UTC +5:30
- Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
- Israel Standard Time - UTC +2
China Standard Time
Offset: CST is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries: It is used in following countries: China, Macau, Taiwan
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST timezone is Shanghai from China with population about 14.609 million people. Other major cities in the area are Zhumadian, Taipei, Beijing, Nanchong
Daylight Saving: China Standard Time (CST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore CST 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, China Standard Time remains the same
CST representations, usage and related time zones
- +08 - basic short
- +0800 - basic
- +08:00 - extended
- +0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates eight hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Hotel - Military abbreviation for CST
- H - short form of 'Hotel'
- Asia/Chongqing
- Asia/Chungking
- Asia/Harbin
- Asia/Macao
- Asia/Macau
- Asia/Shanghai
- Asia/Taipei
- PRC
- ROC
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
- Colombia Standard Time - UTC -5
- ACT - ASEAN Common Time
- AWST - Australian Western Standard Time
- BNT - Brunei Darussalam Time
- CAST - Casey Time
- CHOT - Choibalsan Time
- CST - China Standard Time
- H - Hotel Time Zone
- HKT - Hong Kong Time
- HOVST - Hovd Summer Time
- IRKT - Irkutsk Time
- KRAST - Krasnoyarsk Summer Time
- MYT - Malaysia Time
- PHT - Philippine Time
- SGT - Singapore Time
- ULAT - Ulaanbaatar Time
- WITA - Central Indonesian Time