Time in Madagascar

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Time in Madagascar
Time zone East Africa Time
InitialsEAT
UTC offset UTC+03:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Indian/Antananarivo

Time in Madagascar is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00). [1] [2] Madagascar does not observe daylight saving time. [2] [3]

Contents

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Madagascar is given one zone in the file zone.tabIndian/Antananarivo, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "MG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Madagascar directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [4]

c.c.*coordinates*TZ*CommentsUTC offsetDST
MG −1855+04731 Indian/Antananarivo +03:00 +03:00

See also

References

  1. Madagascar. The World Factbook . Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  2. 1 2 Madagascar Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  3. Bradt, Hilary. (2011) Madagascar, 10th Ed.: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. London. p. 2. Retrieved 27 August 2021. ISBN   978-1-84162-341-2
  4. Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 27 August 2021.