Time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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UTC+01:00, West Africa Time (WAT)
UTC+02:00, Central Africa Time (CAT) UTC hue4map DRC.png
   UTC+01:00, West Africa Time (WAT)
   UTC+02:00, Central Africa Time (CAT)

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.

IANA time zone database

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 timeSummer timeNotes
-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 -

References

  1. "Democratic Republic of the Congo Time Zone".
  2. "Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): Time Zones Africa - Democratic Republic of Congo". wwp.greenwichmeantime.com. Archived from the original on 2004-02-18.