West Island, Cocos Islands · UTC+6:30
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West Island is in the Cocos Islands Time zone (CCT/UTC+6:30). This Australian territory keeps a fixed half-hour offset with no daylight saving.
West Island is the main administrative settlement of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean about halfway between Australia and Sri Lanka. The territory consists of two atolls and about 600 residents, the majority of whom are Cocos Malay, descendants of workers brought to the islands in the 19th century to work coconut plantations.
The islands keep Cocos Islands Time, UTC+6:30, one of the world’s rarer half-hour offset timezones. The Cocos Islands arrived at this offset through geographic pragmatism: the islands sit between UTC+6 (Bangladesh) and UTC+7 (Indonesia), and the half-hour split roughly corresponds to the islands’ longitude.
The Cocos Malay community maintains a distinct cultural identity, language (a Malay creole), and calendar of Islamic festivals that runs in parallel to the civil one. Home Island, across the lagoon from West Island, is where the Cocos Malay community primarily lives.
Cocos Malay community and administration gap
The territory is administered from Christmas Island and ultimately from Canberra. For practical communication, the difference between Australian Eastern Time (UTC+8 or UTC+11) and the local UTC+6:30 is a constant factor in scheduling.
9am on West Island is 2:30am in London. The nearest comparable timezone is Yangon in Myanmar, also at UTC+6:30.
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Questions about time in West Island
- What timezone is West Island in?
- West Island uses the IANA timezone
Indian/Cocos. The UTC offset is always UTC+6:30 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does West Island observe daylight saving time?
- No. West Island does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+6:30 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for West Island?
- West Island is currently at UTC+6:30.
- What is the time difference between West Island and New York?
- West Island is currently 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between West Island and London?
- West Island is currently 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of London.
- What is the time difference between West Island and Los Angeles?
- West Island is currently 13 hours 30 minutes ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between West Island and Tokyo?
- West Island is currently 2 hours 30 minutes behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for West Island?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for West Island is
Indian/Cocos. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Indian/Cocos' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Indian/Cocos')`), or any IANA-compatible library.