The Democratic Republic of the Congo observes UTC+01:00 (West Africa Time) and UTC+02:00 (Central Africa Time). [1] It does not observe DST. [2] It is the only country in Africa to use more than one time zone.
The IANA time zone database contains two zone for the country. The columns marked * contain the data from the file zone.tab of the database.
coordinates* | TZ* | comments* | Standard time | Summer time | Notes |
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-0419+1519 | Africa/Kinshasa | Western DRC(Kinshasa, Boende, Zongo) | UTC+01:00 | not observed | - |
-1140+2728 | Africa/Lubumbashi | Eastern DRC(Kindu, Bukama, Lubumbashi) | UTC+02:00 | - |