Time in Tajikistan

Time in Tajikistan is given by Tajikistan Time (TJT) (UTC+05:00). Tajikistan does not currently observe daylight saving time.[1] The IANA identifier for Tajikistan Time is Asia/Dushanbe.

IANA time zone database

Data for Kyrgyzstan directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself.

c.c.* Coordinates* TZ* Comments* UTC offset
TJ +3835+06848 Asia/Dushanbe +05:00

History

Historic time zones for Tajikistan (both as a country and a Soviet state)[2]

From To Zone DST
1924 May 2 1930 Jun 21 UTC+5 no
1930 Jun 21 1981 Apr 1 UTC+6 no
1981 Apr 1 1991 Mar 31 UTC+6 yes
1991 Mar 31 1991 Sep 9 UTC+5 yes
1991 Sep 9 still UTC+5 no

From 1924 to 1991 Tajikistan always had Moscow Time + 3 hours.

References

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