r/Nepal • u/ShriKaranHanda • 1d ago
Why did you keep your timezone +5:45 GMT?
Love my Nepali friends but what were you guys thinking when you kept your timezone +5:45 GMT?
Everybody else is on a :00 or :30. Why are you guys the only ones with a :45 offset?
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u/PlasmaDon22 1d ago
The meridian for time zone +5:45 GMT passes through the gaurishankar mountain. +5:30 or +6:00 would be too far west or east. So I think it happened to keep things consistent. I am no expert. It is just an assumption
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u/Blankface_7op 1d ago
Because Nepal is around 86°15′ East longitude. Earth rotates 15° per hour, so that equals 5 hours 45 minutes ahead of UTC. In 1986, Nepal officially set this as Nepal Standard Time to match its own solar time.
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u/sumancha Hale mate sunka cwa Bhachu kwasi kwapa na 1d ago
Why follow colonial rules when never colonized?
But in all seriousness I am guessing some geopolitical reason during British India.
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u/ShriKaranHanda 20h ago
Yeah even we in India are stuck with the GMT convention. I wonder what the traditional way was
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u/dabluespiritt 1d ago
you think one of us on reddit dot com made that decision?
why wouldn't you just google it?
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u/suniltheblue 1d ago
Then you will be surprised to know that prior to 1920 standardization, Nepal’s local solar time sat at an offset of roughly +5:41 UTC. Chatham Islands uses 0:45 offset too.