Time in Botswana

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Time in Botswana
Time zone Central Africa Time
InitialsCAT
UTC offset UTC+02:00
Adopted1903
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Gaborone

Time in Botswana is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00). [1] [2] Botswana has never observed daylight saving time. [1] Botswana, as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, has observed CAT since 1903. [3] In 1885 it used the South African Standard Time (SAST; UTC+01:30) as British Bechuanaland. [3] Before adopting SAST and CAT, it observed local mean time (LMT; UTC+01:43). [3]

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Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time in Botswana was adopted in 1943 and consequently disposed of in 1944. [4]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Botswana is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Gaborone. "BW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Botswana directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [5]

c.c.*coordinates*TZ*CommentsUTC offsetCAT
BW −2439+02555 Africa/Gaborone +02:00 UTC+02:00

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References

  1. 1 2 "Botswana Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "Botswana § Capital". The World Factbook . Central Intelligence Agency . Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Time Zone & Clock Changes in Gaborone, Botswana". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Young, Angelo (10 March 2023). "Countries that no longer observe daylight saving time". 24/7 Wall Street.
  5. ↑ Olson, Arthur David (17 May 2009). "Africa at the tz database". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 12 July 2024.
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