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West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in west-central Africa. [1] West Africa Time is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+01:00 ), which aligns it with Central European Time (CET) during winter, and Western European Summer Time (WEST) / British Summer Time (BST) during summer.
In the IANA time zone database, Benin is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Porto-Novo."BJ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Benin directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [4]
Names for the offsets vary by country and jurisdiction: [3] in Africa, UTC+01:00 is commonly known as "West Africa Time", however Algeria, [14] Morocco and Tunisia [15] designate the offset by its European name, "Central European Time"; UTC+02:00 – commonly known as "Central Africa Time" – is designated as "South African Standard Time" by ...
Nigeria observes West Africa Time (WAT), which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time , year-round as standard time. Nigeria has never observed daylight saving time. It shares WAT with fourteen other countries in Africa. Nigeria's local mean time was UTC+00:13:35.
In the IANA time zone database, Gabon is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Libreville."GA" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Gabon directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [4]
If expressed as summer times, these would have been equivalent to West Africa Summer Time and West Africa Standard Time, however Namibia was the only state in Africa to use the combination of UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00. Central European Time also uses UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00, but the northern seasons are opposite to the southern hemisphere.
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In the IANA time zone database, the Central African Republic is given one zone in the file zone.tab—Africa/Bangui. "CF" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for the Central African Republic directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [2]