It supports all major IANA time zones, covering every country and territory worldwide.
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks. All other time zones are expressed as offsets from UTC.
Yes. The converter uses the IANA timezone database which includes daylight saving time rules for all supported zones.
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) and UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) are essentially the same for everyday purposes. UTC is the scientific standard; GMT is the timezone name.
There are 24 standard time zones, but with half-hour and quarter-hour offsets, there are actually about 38 distinct time zones in use worldwide.
IST is UTC+5:30. India uses a single timezone for the entire country, which is unusual for a country of its size.
China officially uses a single timezone (CST, UTC+8) despite spanning five geographical time zones.