Centre notifies rules mandating IST as common time reference; 180-day window for compliance

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India's government has mandated Indian Standard Time (IST) as a common time reference with a 180-day compliance window. This move supports digital and technological systems requiring synchronized timestamps, including banking, telecommunications, railways, and power grids.

The move comes amid growing reliance on digital and technology-based systems—from banking and payments to telecommunications, railways, power grids and computer networks—that depend on accurate and synchronised time stamps