ist time now with seconds
current ist now India Standard Time (IST) is the official time zone of India and Nepal, and it is defined by the Indian government based on the 82.5 degree east meridian, which passes through Allahabad, a city in northern India. The concept of time zones was first proposed by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1879, in which he suggested the division of the world into 24 time zones, each one covering 15 degrees of longitude. He proposed that each time zone should be offset by one hour from the time zone to its east and west, with the prime meridian (0 degree longitude) passing through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, as the reference point. This proposal was later adopted by most countries, including India, and the IST time zone is based on the Greenwich Meridian Time (GMT) system. The IST time zone is offset by UTC+05:30, which means it is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of GMT. This offset ta...