Can someone tell me WHY Mumbai has a half hour time zone difference rather than an hour?

Question

What is the reason behind ONLY a half hour difference?

Answer 1

Blame it on the Brits:

"In 1792, the British East India Company established the Madras Observatory in Chennai (then Madras), largely due to the efforts of the British sailor-astronomer Michael Topping. In 1802, John Goldingham, nominated as the first official astronomer of the Company in India, established the longitude of Madras (13°5′24″N, 80°18′30″E) as 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time as the local standard time. This marked the first-ever instance of the use of the current time zone, and departure from the earlier standard of day-beginning at sunrise getting shifted to midnight."

It is considered Indian Standard Time and the full explanation can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time

Thanks for a good search!!

Answer 2

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