There are several countries that are GMT 7 countries, or countries in the GMT +7 time zone. Some of those countries have multiple regions and time zones but have areas that include the GMT +7 time zone, like the countries in North America have multiple time zones. GMT is an acronym for Greenwich Mean Time. GMT has actually been replaced by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), but remains the more commonly known of the two terms.
Greenwich Mean Time is calculated by the meridian line in Greenwich, London, and starts at midnight. It doesn’t calculate a specified time but is a standard of measurement like inches or yards. It is the name of a time zone, like E.S.T. for Eastern Standard Time would be. Greenwich Mean Time +7 would be the time in Greenwich and London, plus seven hours. So, at noon in Greenwich, the time in GMT 7 countries would be 7:00 p.m.
UTC time is Coordinated Universal Time but can be different from GMT by approximately nine seconds. The terms are often used interchangeably. GMT is calculated at this point of the world due to the Earth’s tilt and how the Sun reaches its highest point in Greenwich. This typically occurs just moments before noon GMT.
How GMT is Used
Outside of the GMT time zone, GMT is a day that once started at noon, but now, starts at midnight like every other time zone. UTC is used frequently, and GMT is used by the United Kingdom, the BBC World Service, Middle East Broadcasting Centre, and the Royal Navy.
Official time zones do not always mirror the meridian lines, but GMT +7 can be geographical. Sometimes there are regions that fall within a meridian line but is in a completely different time zone.
The countries that are in the GMT +7 time zone are as follows:
Russia is a country with three different time zones, but the GMT +7 time zone regions of Russia include the Siberian Federal District areas that include:
Altai Krai
Altai Republic
Kemerovo Oblast
Khakassia
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Novosibirsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast
Tuva
It is the Western part of Mongolia that has the GMT +7 time zone, in Hovd, Zavkhan, Uvs, Bayan-Olgii, and Govi-Altai. Australia is in the GMT+7 and the countries in Southeast Asia that are in GMT+7 include Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
GMT+7 is 7 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The GMT/UTC+7 hours offset is shared by several countries countries in Asia. None of them uses Daylight Saving Time. The time zone offset called for Cambodia, Lao, Thailand and Vietnam is also known as Indochina Time or ICT.
Like most states in the USA, Daylight Saving Time (DST) is observed in California, where the time is shifted forward by 1 hour to Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), which is 7 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT-7 ).
Australia is in the GMT+7 and the countries in Southeast Asia that are in GMT+7 include Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. As of 2023, daylight savings time is not observed in any region that occupies the UTC+07:00 time zone (though other parts of Australia or Antarctica may do so).
UTC+07:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +07:00. In ISO 8601 the associated time would be written as 2024-06-18T10:07:42+07:00. It is 7 hours ahead of UTC, meaning that when the time in UTC areas is midnight (00:00), the time in UTC+07:00 areas would be 7:00 in the morning.
Although both GMT and UTC display the same time, there is a difference: GMT is now considered just a time zone officially used in some European and African countries. But UTC is not a time zone, but rather the new time standard that is the basis for clock time and time zones worldwide.
How Many Time Zones Are There in the US? There are 9 time zones by law in the USA and its dependencies. However, adding the time zones of 2 uninhabited US territories, Howland Island and Baker Island, brings the total count to 11 time zones. The contiguous US has 4 standard time zones.
Legally, the civil time used in the UK is called "Greenwich mean time" (without capitalisation), with an exception made for those periods when the Summer Time Act 1972 orders an hour's shift for daylight saving.
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