Time Zone History

Afghanistan time zone history

Its standard time, UTC+4:30, is one of only 14 offsets among the 312 zones that are not a whole number of hours from UTC. On standard time, clocks in Kabul run 7 minutes behind local mean solar time.

UTC+4:30

Standard time is UTC+4:30 all year under the current rules.

tz database name Asia/Kabul

Convert a time from Afghanistan

UTC+4:30 every day since 1970

UTC+4: 30 minutes behind today’s standard timeUTC+4:30: today’s standard timeUTC+4:36:48: 7 minutes ahead of today’s standard timeUTC+4: 30 minutes behind today’sstandard timeUTC+4:30: today’s standard timeUTC+4:36:48: 7 minutes ahead oftoday’s standard time

How to read this chart

Before 1970

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JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1970198019902000201020202028JFMAMJJASOND1970198019902000201020202028

Standard time changes

DateChangeNew standard timeClock label
Before 1970
January 1, 1890Local mean time (UTC+4:36:48) replacedUTC+4numeric only
January 1, 1945Standard time forward 30 minutesUTC+4:30numeric only

Clocks next door since 1970

  • Tajikistan (454 km): usually 30 minutes ahead; different on 7,921 days in 1970–1991.
  • Samarkand (Uzbekistan) (611 km): usually 30 minutes ahead; different on 2,194 days in 1981–1991.
  • Tashkent (Uzbekistan) (758 km): usually 30 minutes ahead; different on 7,941 days in 1970–1991.
  • Turkmenistan (1,042 km): usually 30 minutes ahead; different on 1,942 days in 1981–1992.
  • Kyrgyzstan (1,043 km): usually 1 hour 30 minutes ahead; different on 4,233 days in 1981–2005.

How it compares

Afghanistan has kept UTC+4:30 since 1945, with no clock changes since 1970.