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Why is Kabul, Afghanistan 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT?

Asked by BarnacleBill (16123points) November 7th, 2010

I have the world clock on my iPod set to GMT and Kabul, as well as my local time zone. No reason, just because. The AFT time zone is set to 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT, which is also called UTC (Coordinated Universal Time. The acronym doesn’t match up.) When it’s 1:00 am GMT it’s 5:30 am in Kabul.

Why is Afganistan not on a full hour difference, but instead has a 30 minute deviation? Are there other times zones that are not on full hours?

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