Time in Tajikistan

Time in Tajikistan is given by Tajikistan Time (TJT) (UTC+05:00). Tajikistan does not currently observe daylight saving time.^[1] The IANA identifier for Tajikistan Time is Asia/Dushanbe.

IANA time zone database

Data for Kyrgyzstan directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself.

c.c.*	Coordinates*	TZ*	Comments*	UTC offset
TJ	+3835+06848	Asia/Dushanbe		+05:00

History

Historic time zones for Tajikistan (both as a country and a Soviet state)^[2]

From	To	Zone	DST
1924 May 2	1930 Jun 21	UTC+5	no
1930 Jun 21	1981 Apr 1	UTC+6	no
1981 Apr 1	1991 Mar 31	UTC+6	yes
1991 Mar 31	1991 Sep 9	UTC+5	yes
1991 Sep 9	still	UTC+5	no

From 1924 to 1991 Tajikistan always had Moscow Time + 3 hours.

References

↑ http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/tajikistan/dushanbe Time zone in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
↑ https://www.iana.org/time-zones

Time in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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