Irkutsk Time


Irkutsk Time is the time zone eight hours ahead of UTC and 5 hours ahead of Moscow Time.
The time zone covers Buryatia and Irkutsk Oblast.
On 27 March 2011, Russia moved to year-round daylight saving time. Instead of switching between UTC+08:00 in winter and UTC+09:00 in summer, Irkutsk Time became fixed at UTC+09:00 until 2014, when it was reset back to UTC+08:00 year-round.

IANA time zone database

In the zone.tab of the IANA time [zone database], the zone with the same current offset is: