The Reason Nepal Is Different From The World Now

When the clock was only 1 hour in Iran, 2 hours in India and 3 hours in Myanmar, Nepal it was 2:15.
The reason Nepal is different from the world now
The world has 24 time zones, each one hour apart. However, there are time zones that are currently affected by political, geographic and social changes, or by new conventions. However, there are usually only a half or a half hour difference between countries. Meanwhile, Nepal does not follow any international rules, the time in GMT + 5: 45 - 45 minutes from Greenwich standard time

. In fact, this country in the Himalayas has its own time zone, Nepali Standard Time.
As the years went by, the world time zone was much more complicated. Photo: AFP
Nepal's Standard Time dates back to 1956, when the policymakers decided that the longitude for the nation should be taken at Gauri Sankar, a sacred mountain to the east of the capital, Kathmandu.



At that time, India was laying the meridian in Calcutta, so the time of Nepal was ten minutes faster.
Today, Indian time is 15 minutes later than Nepal, when this billion-population country chose the meridian for the time zone in Hyderabad. The time difference between the two neighboring countries gives birth to the joke that Nepalis are always 15 minutes late, or Indians usually arrive 15 minutes early.
Before 1956, the Nepalese viewed the time much less accurately, mainly relying on devices such as the "dhup ghadi" sundial. During the Malla period (1201-1779), the only way for the Nepalese to see the time was to go to a pond near the royal palace in the capital Kathmandu, where an official would observe a device called the "Ghati engine", essentially rocks with small holes sink into the water. Each stone takes exactly 24 minutes to sink. So by counting the number of rocks that sank each day, the timekeeper of the kingdom could tell the people the time
Gaurishankar Peak (7,134 m) is part of the Himalayas.



This mountain is named after the Hindu goddess Gauri. Photo: NTNC.
The Nepalis call their country's unusual time zone Nepali Stretched Time, because they treat that 15-minute difference as a grace period if they are late. It is also a point of pride for the Nepalese to be ahead of India, its bigger neighbor, even for a few minutes. But compared to the West, the Nepalese went even further, because they still used an old calendar 56 years and 6 months ahead of the Gregorian calendar - now it is 2076 in Kathmandu.
Nepal is the only country in the world 15 minutes ahead of its neighbor, but there is another land that produces similar odd time zones. It is Chatham, a small archipelago of New Zealand with the time zone GMT + 13h45. The people of Chatham Island set their clocks 45 minutes ahead of the people on South Island, for no good reason.




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