🕰️ India to Mandate IST for All Activities: A New Timekeeping Era

The Government of India is introducing the Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2025, which will make Indian Standard Time (IST) the sole official time reference across all:

- 🏛️ Legal frameworks
- 💻 Digital infrastructure
- 🛒 Commercial operations
- 🏢 Administrative systems

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🔍 Why This Move?

Currently, many sectors rely on foreign time sources such as GPS. This poses several risks:

- 🎯 Cyber vulnerabilities – Time spoofing and jamming attacks
- 📉 Inconsistent timestamps – Complicating audits and legal cases
- 🕵️ Investigation hurdles – Due to non-synchronized logs

Mandating IST will:
- Boost digital security
- Ensure accurate billing and logging
- Enable better cybercrime tracking
- Support critical sectors like telecom, transport, and finance

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🏗️ How Will It Work?

Led by the Department of Consumer Affairs, with support from CSIR–NPL and ISRO, the initiative will:

- Establish 5 Regional Reference Standard Laboratories (RRSLs) in:
- Ahmedabad
- Bengaluru
- Bhubaneswar
- Faridabad
- Guwahati
- Equip them with atomic clocks
- Disseminate IST via:
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) – for millisecond precision
- Precision Time Protocol (PTP) – for microsecond accuracy

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⚖️ Legal & Digital Implications

Once notified, the rules will:

- ❌ Ban alternate time references unless specifically approved
- 🔐 Make IST the legally enforceable time source

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