PST to IST
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What time is IST when it is 12:00 PST?
01:30 the following day. India Standard Time is 13 hours 30 minutes ahead of Pacific Time in January and 12 hours 30 minutes ahead of it in July. The gap moves because Los Angeles observes daylight saving and Mumbai does not, so the difference between them is not a fixed number. There is no hour of the standard working day that is inside 9-to-5 in both Los Angeles and Mumbai. One side has to take the call outside office hours, so it is worth agreeing which.
Is the difference between PST and IST the same all year?
No, and this is the pair where that matters. India Standard Time is 13 hours 30 minutes ahead of Pacific Time in January and 12 hours 30 minutes ahead of it in July. The gap moves because Los Angeles observes daylight saving and Mumbai does not, so the difference between them is not a fixed number. Booking a recurring call across these two and assuming one number will drift by an hour twice a year — check the date, not just the zones.
What do PST and IST actually stand for?
PST is Pacific Time, the zone covering Los Angeles, currently UTC−8 in January. IST is India Standard Time, covering Mumbai, at UTC+5:30. Pacific Time runs three hours behind the US east coast, which is why a 9am meeting on the east coast is a 6am meeting here — the single most common scheduling complaint in North American business.
Anything worth knowing about India Standard Time?
One of a handful of zones offset by half an hour rather than a whole one — UTC+5:30 for the entire country, from Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh. India has no daylight saving, so the offset is the same all year.
When is a good time to call between Los Angeles and Mumbai?
There is no hour of the standard working day that is inside 9-to-5 in both Los Angeles and Mumbai. One side has to take the call outside office hours, so it is worth agreeing which. If the call has to happen outside that, the fairer arrangement is usually to alternate which side takes the awkward hour rather than always asking the same one.
How it works, and more about pst → ist
The difference, and whether you can rely on it
In January, India Standard Time is 13 hours 30 minutes ahead of Pacific Time — UTC−8 against UTC+5:30. In July it is 12 hours 30 minutes ahead instead. That is the part worth carrying away: this is not a pair you can memorise a single number for.
Why the gap moves
Los Angeles observes daylight saving; Mumbai does not. So the clocks in one city move twice a year while the other stays put, and the distance between them changes with them. Any calculation you did in one season is wrong in the other. The converter above uses the date you give it rather than today’s offset, which is the only way to get a future meeting right when it falls on the other side of a changeover.
When you can both be at a desk
There is no hour inside 9-to-5 in both Los Angeles and Mumbai. Whatever you schedule, one side is taking it outside working hours — so the useful question is not when to meet but who absorbs the inconvenience, and whether it alternates.
Reading the abbreviations literally will mislead you
PST strictly means one fixed offset, but almost nobody uses it that way. People write it to mean the time in Los Angeles, which shifts if that city observes daylight saving — and it does. This page follows the common usage rather than the strict one, because the strict reading gives an answer that is wrong for a good part of the year.
Pacific Time runs three hours behind the US east coast, which is why a 9am meeting on the east coast is a 6am meeting here — the single most common scheduling complaint in North American business. One of a handful of zones offset by half an hour rather than a whole one — UTC+5:30 for the entire country, from Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh. India has no daylight saving, so the offset is the same all year.
Scheduling something recurring
For a one-off, the converter above is the whole job. For a standing meeting across these two zones, where the gap changes, it is worth putting the invitation in a calendar that stores the zone rather than the time — then the changeover is handled for you and nobody has to remember. If you are trying to find a slot across more than two places at once, the meeting planner shows a whole day at a glance instead.