Time in Zimbabwe

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Time in Zimbabwe
Time zone Central Africa Time
InitialsCAT
UTC offset UTC+02:00
Adopted1903 (as Southern Rhodesia)
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Harare

Time in Zimbabwe is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00). [1] [2] Zimbabwe has never observed daylight saving time. [1] Zimbabwe, as Southern Rhodesia, has observed CAT since 1903. [3]

Contents

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Zimbabwe is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Harare. "ZW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Zimbabwe 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
ZW −1750+03103 Africa/Harare +02:00 +02:00

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Zimbabwe Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ↑ Zimbabwe. The World Factbook . Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  3. ↑ Time Changes in Harare Over the Years | 1903–1924. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  4. ↑ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 6 August 2021.


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