Time in Sri Lanka

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Time in Sri Lanka since 15 April 2006 is officially represented by the Sri Lanka Standard Time (SLST, UTC+05:30).

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Historic UTC offsets were:

Daylight saving time

In history daylight saving time was used too.

IANA time zone database

The IANA time zone database contains one zone for Sri Lanka in the file zone.tab, named Asia/Colombo.

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