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Time in Laos is dependent on its geographical location. The geographic coordinates are 1800 N and 105 E. Situated in the South-eastern Asia, northeast of Thailand and west of Vietnam Laos falls under a changing time zone. Standard time of Lao is 7 hours ahead of GMT.
Time in Laos can be regarded as GMT+7. Thus Time in Laos runs seven hour ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time. Laos's people go by this time. Laos Time does not operate daylight-Saving Time. Laos is 15 hours ahead of US Pacific, 7 hours ahead of London, 12 hours ahead of US Eastern Standard Time, 3 hours behind Sydney an d 5 hours behind Auckland.
The Standard Time Zone of Laos is CMT/UTC+07:00 hour. The latitude of the country is 18''01'North and longitude of Laos is 102"48'east. These two are the determining factor of Time of Laos. No Daylight Saving Tine is found in Laos. There is no difference between summer and winter as such.
Thus Laos Time usually can be calculated by adding 7 hours to the Greenwich Mean Time.
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