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Bougainville Standard Time

Offset: BST is 11 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Papua New Guinea

Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST time zone is Arawa in Papua New Guinea, with about 40,266 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Kieta, Panguna.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Bougainville Standard Time (BST) do not change for daylight saving time, so BST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

BST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +11 - basic short
  • +1100 - basic
  • +11:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +1100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (11) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eleven hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Lima - Military abbreviation for BST
  • L - short form of 'Lima'
BST Abbreviation: Several time zones share BST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • British Summer Time - UTC +1
  • Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
  • Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
Time zones with the GMT +11 offset:
  • AEDT - Australian Eastern Daylight Time
  • BST - Bougainville Standard Time
  • KOST - Kosrae Time
  • L - Lima Time Zone
  • LHDT - Lord Howe Daylight Time
  • MAGT - Magadan Time
  • NCT - New Caledonia Time
  • NFT - Norfolk Time
  • PONT - Pohnpei Standard Time
  • SBT - Solomon Islands Time
  • VLAST - Vladivostok Summer Time
  • VUT - Vanuatu Time