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b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively. East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa. The time zone is three hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+03:00 ), which is the same as Moscow Time, Arabia Standard Time, Further-eastern European Time and Eastern European Summer Time. [1]
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape. Defined in varying scopes, the region is recognized in the United Nations Statistics Division scheme as encompassing 18 sovereign states and 4 territories.
Therefore, the local population could be said to effectively observe UTC-03:00 rather than UTC+03:00 in terms of the numbering of hours and their association with 24-hour days, with the exception of the hour from 6:00 AM EAT to 6:59 AM EAT. As of 2015, the modified 12-hour system remained common, despite pressure to follow international norms.
Africa. Africa, the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, spans across six different time zone offsets from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): UTC−01:00 to UTC+04:00. [2] [3] As Africa straddles the equator and tropics, there is little change in daylight hours throughout the year [4] and as such daylight saving time is ...
In the IANA time zone database, Uganda is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Kampala, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "UG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Uganda directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
Uganda, [b] officially the Republic of Uganda, [c] is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of ...
The East African Rift ( EAR) or East African Rift System ( EARS) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. The EAR began developing around the onset of the Miocene, 22–25 million years ago. [1] It was formerly considered to be part of a larger Great Rift Valley that extended north to Asia Minor .
On 1 February 2021, South Sudan moved its time back one hour to the UTC offset +02:00, adopting Central Africa Time. IANA time zone database. In the IANA time zone database, South Sudan is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Juba. "SS" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.