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Time zone
Time zones of
South Asia
, with Nepal Standard Time indicated
Nepal Standard Time
(
NPT
) is the
time zone
for
Nepal
.
[1]
With a time offset from
Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC) of
UTC+05:45
all over Nepal,
[2]
[3]
it is one of only three time zones with a 45-minute offset from UTC.
[n 1]
[4]
NPT is an approximation of
Kathmandu
mean time
, which is 5:41:16 ahead of
UTC
. The standard meridian passes through the peak of
Gaurishankar
mountain about 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of Kathmandu.
[2]
Nepal used local
solar time
until 1920, in Kathmandu UTC+05:41:16. In 1920, Nepal adopted
Indian Standard Time
,
UTC+05:30
. In 1986 Nepal advanced their clocks by 15 minutes, giving them a time zone of
UTC+05:45
.
[5]
IANA time zone database
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The
IANA time zone database
contains one zone for Nepal in the file
zone.tab
, named Asia/Kathmandu.
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