A simple clock for India

How it works

The clock runs in your browser, using your device time and time zone settings. India’s display uses the Asia/Kolkata time zone. Each tick reads the device clock again. Returning to the page also updates the display.

We do not check your device against an external time server. For time-critical work, verify your device’s clock and use an appropriate synchronized time source.

If the browser cannot read your time or time zone, the page shows an error instead of leaving an old time on screen. Check your device settings, then use “Try again”. If the live clock does not load at all, allow JavaScript and reload the page.

Clock not showing the time you expect?

Start with the symptom below. Changing 12/24-hour format only changes how the time is written; it does not fix the device clock or change a time zone.

Both clocks show the wrong time or date

1. Check the date and time shown by your device itself. This page uses that clock, so an incorrect device time also affects the India display.
2. Open the device’s date and time settings. Check the year and date as well as the hour. Use automatic date/time if it is available and working; check the device’s network connection if automatic updates are not working.
3. Check the time zone separately. Correct the device settings rather than adding hours to this website’s display. If the settings are locked, use your device provider’s guidance or ask the administrator who manages the device.
4. Return to the live clock and reload it. Read the date below each clock. If an error message remains, use Try again after correcting the settings.

India looks right, but “Your local time” is wrong

1. Read the named time zone under “Your local time.” It comes from your browser/device settings, not your IP address or a location permission on this site.
2. In device date/time settings, select the region or city for the local time you want, or use automatic time zone where supported. Setting the time automatically and setting the time zone automatically can be separate options.
3. Reload the clock after changing settings. If the old zone remains, close and reopen the browser. If necessary, follow your device maker’s time-zone update instructions.

If your device is set to India, both clocks should agree. If India’s date differs from your local date, that can be normal: see examples where one location is already in the next year. After correcting a setting, select Compare dates now again to replace any old snapshot.

Where are these settings?

Names and availability vary by operating-system version and device. These are links to the device makers’ instructions, not controls that this website can change:

• Windows: date, time and time zone. Time & language → Date & time contains separate time and time-zone settings.
• iPhone, iPad and Mac: incorrect time or time zone. iPhone/iPad use General → Date & Time; Mac has Date & Time settings. Automatic time-zone detection may require system location services, and some settings may be restricted.
• Google Pixel: date, time and time zone. Follow Change date & time in the Clock settings. Other Android manufacturers may use different menus; a saved home/world clock is not necessarily the device’s current time zone.

You do not need to grant this website location access. Any automatic time-zone location setting belongs to your operating system.

The clock is blank or stuck at —:—:—

1. The live clock needs JavaScript. Check your browser’s permissions for indiatimenow.com; allow JavaScript for this site if you want to use the live clocks, then reload. Chrome’s site permission instructions describe the JavaScript setting. Other browsers have different menus.
2. If JavaScript is already allowed, a failed connection or a script-blocking extension may have stopped the clock files loading. Check your connection and the extension’s settings for this site, then reload; you do not need to disable protection for other sites.
3. If it still fails, try an up-to-date browser. On a managed device, ask its administrator about blocked scripts. The static IST guide remains readable without JavaScript, but cannot show the current time.

Return to the clock. A correct-looking display is not proof of atomic-clock accuracy; this site does not verify or synchronize your device time.

Help instructions checked against the linked provider documentation on 22 September 2026.

Privacy and storage

Your device time and detected time zone are processed in your browser. The clock does not request your location or send its displayed time, detected time zone, or format preference to a server.

The only preference stored by the site is your 12/24-hour choice, in this browser’s local storage. The clock still works when storage is blocked. You can remove that preference by clearing this site’s browser data.

This version uses Cloudflare Web Analytics only on indiatimenow.com to measure page views, referring sites and loading performance. The analytics beacon sends page and referrer URLs and browser performance measurements to Cloudflare; it does not use cookies or collect the clock’s format choice. Page views are not a count of completed time checks. Blocking analytics does not stop the clock.

Optional comparison measurement

The checkbox under the comparison tool is off by default. If you turn it on, this tab sends comparison starts, completed snapshots, failures and successful copies to our own Cloudflare endpoint. Events contain a site/page label, action, broad duration and error category, test flag, and a random ID for that comparison. The ID stays in tab memory and expires after 30 minutes; it is not a visitor ID. We do not send either clock value, your time zone, your copied text, or page/referrer URLs in these optional events.

Turning the checkbox off stops new event requests; requests already sent cannot be recalled. Reloading resets the choice. Automatic ticking, changing the time format and simply viewing the clock are not counted as completed comparisons. Blocking measurement does not stop comparison or copying.

Event storage is separate from the page-view service above. Raw events are scheduled for daily removal once more than 24 hours old; anonymous daily totals are scheduled for removal after 90 days. Until scheduled cleanup has been observed, these are configured retention targets. Recovery backups can retain deleted data for another 7 days. Our collector has no application request logs or public read endpoint. Cloudflare still processes connection information such as IP addresses and browser headers to deliver and secure the service, under its own policies.

Ads are not enabled, and there is no account system. A public AdSense account tag and ads.txt file identify the publisher for site verification; they do not load advertising scripts. Cloudflare also hosts the site and receives normal web requests, which include information such as your IP address and browser headers. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Publisher and sources

This independent tool is developed and operated by ksana-opc. It is not affiliated with India’s government or National Physical Laboratory. The IST guide lists the sources behind the time zone information.

Last updated: 22 September 2026.