Delhi time explained
India keeps a single time zone for the entire country, offset by five and a half hours from UTC — one of only a few places worldwide on a half-hour offset. There is no daylight saving. The single zone means the sun rises in the far northeast well over an hour before it does in Gujarat, a long-running argument in Indian public policy.
Delhi does not observe daylight saving. Its offset from UTC is the same all year round, which makes scheduling with it noticeably simpler.
Reaching Delhi
A Delhi afternoon reaches the European morning and a Delhi morning reaches east Asia. The half-hour offset means cross-border meetings here often land on the half hour rather than the hour, which is worth remembering when reading an invitation.
How this page works
The time above is calculated on your own device from the IANA time zone
database that ships with your browser, using the zone
Asia/Kolkata. Nothing is fetched from a server, and the offset
shown is whatever is currently in force rather than a
number typed into the page — so when a country changes its rules, this
page changes with it.
The difference from your own clock is worked out the same way, comparing Delhi's current offset against your device's. If your computer's clock is wrong, so is that comparison.