diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily-smoke-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/daily-smoke-tests.yml
index 67cbf9418..097972364 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/daily-smoke-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily-smoke-tests.yml
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ on:
   schedule:
     # Cron syntax is "minute[0-59] hour[0-23] date[1-31] month[1-12] day[0-6]". '*' is 'any value,' and multiple values
     # can be specified with comma-separated lists. All times are UTC.
-    # So this expression means "run at 13:30 UTC every day". This time was chosen because it corresponds to
-    # 8:30AM CDT, meaning that any issues will be surfaced before the start of business.
-    - cron: "30 13 * * *"
+    # So this expression means "run at 03:30 UTC every day". This time was chosen because it corresponds to
+    # 9:00AM IST, meaning that any issues will be surfaced before the start of business in India.
+    - cron: "30 3 * * *"
 jobs:
   smoke-test:
   # We run the daily smoke tests against 'dev' to validate that the code currently in development is still valid
diff --git a/.github/workflows/heartbeat-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/heartbeat-tests.yml
index 3c9c2a34f..6081f1885 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/heartbeat-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/heartbeat-tests.yml
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ on:
   schedule:
     # Cron syntax is "minute[0-59] hour[0-23] date[1-31] month[1-12] day[0-6]". '*' is 'any value', and multiple values
     # can be specified with comma-separated lists. All times are UTC.
-    # So this expression means "run at 45 minutes past 1, 5, and 9 AM/PM UTC". The hours were chosen so that
-    # the jobs run only close to business hours of Central Time.
+    # So this expression means "run at 30 minutes past 3, 6, and 10 UTC" (which is 09:00, 12:00, and 16:00 IST). The hours were chosen so that
+    # the jobs run during daytime hours of India Standard Time (IST).
     # Days were chosen to run only from Monday through Friday.
-    - cron: "45 13,17,21 * * 1,2,3,4,5"
+    - cron: "30 3,6,10 * * 1,2,3,4,5"
 
 jobs:
   production-heartbeat: