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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 ...
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.
South Africa observed a daylight saving time of GMT+03:00 between 20 September 1942 to 21 March 1943 and 19 September 1943 to 19 March 1944. [6] South African Standard Time is defined as "Coordinated Universal Time plus two hours" as defined in South African National Government Gazette No. 40125 of 8 July 2016. [7]
Central Africa Time or CAT, is a time zone used in central and southern Africa. Central Africa Time is two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+02:00 ), which is the same as the adjacent South Africa Standard Time , Egypt Standard Time , Eastern European Time , Kaliningrad Time and Central European Summer Time .
In the IANA time zone database, Guinea-Bissau is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Bissau. "GW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Guinea-Bissau directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [1]
In the IANA time zone database, Mozambique is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Maputo."MZ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Mozambique directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [6]
In the Zambezi Region in the far north-east of Namibia clocks were not changed and remained on Central Africa Time all year round so that during winter time, Namibia spanned two time zones. [ 8 ] In the 2010s repeated calls from businesses and private individuals were made to abolish winter time, citing incompatibilities with South Africa ...
South Africa: 1944: Observed DST in 1942–1944. South Korea: 1988: Observed DST in 1948–1951, 1955–1960, and 1987–1988. South Sudan: 1985: Observed DST in 1970–1985, when it was part of Sudan. Spain: Observed DST in 1917–1919, 1924, 1926–1929, 1937–1946, 1949, and since 1974. The Canary Islands observed DST since 1980. Sri Lanka ...