Time in Niger

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Time in Niger
Time zone West Africa Time
InitialsWAT
UTC offset UTC+01:00
Adopted1 January 1912
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Niamey

Time in Niger is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00). [1] [2] Niger adopted WAT on 1 January 1912, [3] and has never observed daylight saving time. [1]

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IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Niger is given one zone in the file zone.tabAfrica/Niamey. "NE" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Niger 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
NE +1331+00207 Africa/Niamey +01:00 +01:00

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References

  1. 1 2 Niger Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  2. Niger. The World Factbook . Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  3. Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935) "Standard Time Throughout the World. U.S.". United States National Bureau of Standards. Government Printing Office. p. 3. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  4. Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 15 September 2021.