Time in Mongolia

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

Daylight saving time

Mongolia used daylight saving time in 1983–1998, 2001–2006 and 2015–2016. 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.

See also

• Historical time zones of China

References

External links

• http://www.statoids.com/tmn.html