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Bombay Time was one of the authority time regions specified in English India in 1884. The time vicinity was laid out at some point of the Global Meridian Gathering held at Washington, D.C. In the US in 1884. It was then concluded that India would have double cross zones, Calcutta (currently Kolkata), and Bombay (currently Mumbai). Bombay Time changed into set at four hours and 51 mins in the front of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

However, Bombay Time become difficult to alternate over completely to Indian Standard Time (IST) after it turned into taken on 1 January 1906 as the authority time location of India. With public feeling against the public authority, unmistakable advodate Pherozeshah Mehta contended against the alternate. He found out a way to gradual down processes within the Bombay Civil Company for multiple days by way of contending that the general public authority did not deliver people into fact. Confronted with growing public disdain over the preliminary, the public authority racked the exchange, and Bombay Time was saved up with until 1955.