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Sri Lanka
IST
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3am
6am
9am
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3pm
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9pm
BST
Bangladesh Standard Time
GMT +6
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm

Quick answers

Bentota is 30 minutes behind BST Asia year-round.

Working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in Bentota correspond to 9:30 am to 5:30 pm in BST Asia.

Compare Bentota time with BST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

IST (India Standard Time) is 0 hours and 30 minutes behind Bangladesh Standard Time
5:30 pm17:30 in Bentota, Sri Lanka is 6:00 pm18:00 in BST

Bentota to BST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-4:30pm in Bentota which corresponds to 9:30am-5pm in BST

5:30 pm17:30 IST (India Standard Time) (Bentota, Sri Lanka). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
6:00 pm18:00 Bangladesh Standard Time (BST). Offset UTC +6:00 hours

5:30 pm17:30 Bentota, Sri Lanka / 6:00 pm18:00 BST

Bentota, Sri LankaBST
12am (midnight)12:30 am
1am1:30 am
2am2:30 am
3am3:30 am
4am4:30 am
5am5:30 am
6am6:30 am
7am7:30 am
8am8:30 am
9am9:30 am
10am10:30 am
11am11:30 am
12pm (noon)12:30 pm
1pm1:30 pm
2pm2:30 pm
3pm3:30 pm
4pm4:30 pm
5pm5:30 pm
6pm6:30 pm
7pm7:30 pm
8pm8:30 pm
9pm9:30 pm
10pm10:30 pm
11pm11:30 pm
00:0000:30
01:0001:30
02:0002:30
03:0003:30
04:0004:30
05:0005:30
06:0006:30
07:0007:30
08:0008:30
09:0009:30
10:0010:30
11:0011:30
12:0012:30
13:0013:30
14:0014:30
15:0015:30
16:0016:30
17:0017:30
18:0018:30
19:0019:30
20:0020:30
21:0021:30
22:0022:30
23:0023:30

Bentota Information

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Name
IST - India Standard Time
UTC / GMT Offset
+5:30 hours during India Standard Time, currently in use.

Bentota Facts

Country
Sri Lanka
Alternative Names
BJT, Bentota, Бентота
Population
37,000
Currency
Rupee (LKR)
Geographic Coordinates
6° 25' N Latitude / 79° 59' E Longitude
International Dialing Code
+94

Bangladesh Standard Time

Offset: BST is 6 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia

Countries using this time zone: Bangladesh

Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST time zone is Dhaka in Bangladesh, with about 10.357 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Comilla.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Bangladesh 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.

BST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +06 - basic short
  • +0600 - basic
  • +06:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0600 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of six hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Foxtrot - Military abbreviation for BST
  • F - short form of 'Foxtrot'
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 +6 offset:
  • ALMT - Alma-Ata Time
  • BST - Bangladesh Standard Time
  • BDT - Bangladesh Time
  • BTT - Bhutan Time
  • F - Foxtrot Time Zone
  • IOT - Indian Chagos Time
  • KGT - Kyrgyzstan Time
  • OMST - Omsk Standard Time
  • QYZT - Qyzylorda Time
  • XJT - Xinjiang Time
  • YEKST - Yekaterinburg Summer Time