Bagan Time: The One-Hour Clock Assam Has Run for 150 Years

Assam's tea estates run on 'Bagan Time', a full hour ahead of IST, since British planter days.

India uses one clock (IST, UTC+5:30) across ~2 hours of real sunrise difference.

In summer the sun rises before 5 am in Arunachal but offices still open at 10 am IST.

A 2018 CSIR-NPL study proposed a second zone, IST-II (UTC+6:30), for the Northeast.

The Plantations Labour Act, 1951 quietly lets estates set their own local work clock.

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