Time in Mongolia

Time in Mongolia is officially represented by the Mongolian Standard Time (UTC+08:00). However, the far western provinces of Khovd, Uvs and Bayan-Ölgii use UTC+07:00.

Daylight saving time

Mongolia used daylight saving time in 1983–1998, 2001–2006[1] and 2015–2016.[2] However, Mongolia observes time almost exactly an hour ahead of its geographical time zone, with its border between UTC+7 and UTC+8 being almost exactly the longitudinal line of 97.5° E(which is really the designated border for between UTC+7 and UTC+6), so all of Mongolia could be said to be on permanent daylight/summer time.

IANA time zone database

The IANA time zone database contains two zones for Mongolia in the file zone.tab.

c.c. coordinates TZ comments Standard time Summer time Notes
MN +4755+10653
Asia/Ulaanbaatar
most of Mongolia +08:00 +08:00 Link from Asia/Choibalsan, Asia/Ulan_Bator
MN +4801+09139
Asia/Hovd
Bayan-Ölgii, Hovd, Uvs +07:00 +07:00 Bayan-Ölgii, Hovd, Uvs

See also

References

  1. ^ "DST News – Mongolia Daylight Saving Time news". WorldTimeZone.com. 8 February 2007. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Time Zone News – Mongolia Abolishes Daylight Saving Time". timeanddate.com. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.