The Allahabad Observatory located in the suburb of Jhusi, just outside Allahabad is the centre responsible for maintaining the Indian Standard Time.[1] The observatory is located at 82.5°E longitude, which translates to an exact time difference of 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) i.e. UTC+05:30.[2]
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- ↑ "Allahabad". Indian Institute of Geomagnetism. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ↑ Latief Ahmad, Raihana Habib Kanth, Sabah Parvaze, Syed Sheraz Mahdi. "Chapter 2 Agro-meteorological Observatory 2.8 Calculation of Local Mean Time". Experimental Agrometeorology: A Practical Manual (PDF). Springer. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-319-69184-8.
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