Time in the Republic of the Congo

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Time in the Republic of the Congo
Time zone West Africa Time
InitialsWAT
UTC offset UTC+01:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Brazzaville

The Republic of the Congo observes a single time zone year-round, denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00). [1]

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IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, the Congo is given one zone in the file zone.tab—Africa/Brazzaville. "CG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for the Congo directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [2]

c.c.*coordinates*TZ*CommentsUTC offsetDST
CG −0416+01517 Africa/Brazzaville +01:00 +01:00

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References

  1. "Congo, Republic of the". The World Factbook . Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 8 September 2022. time difference: UTC+1
  2. "Africa". tz database . Internet Assigned Numbers Authority . Retrieved 8 September 2022.