| Time in Mauritania | |
|---|---|
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time |
| Initials | GMT |
| UTC offset | UTC+00:00 |
| Daylight saving time | |
| DST not observed | |
| tz database | |
| Africa/Nouakchott | |
Time in Mauritania is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00). [1] [2] Mauritania shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa. [3] Mauritania does not observe daylight saving time (DST). [4]
In the IANA time zone database, Mauritania is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Nouakchott, which is an alias to Africa/Abidjan. "MR" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Mauritania 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* | Comments | UTC offset | DST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MR | +1806−01557 | Africa/Nouakchott | +00:00 | +00:00 |
time difference: UTC 0