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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. As most of this time zone is in the tropical ...
Time in 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 ...
The western African country Ghana observes a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00 ). [ 1][ 2] Ghana shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa where it was formerly known as Western Sahara Standard Time (WSST). [ 3] Ghana does not have an associated daylight saving time ...
Time in Benin is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00 ). [1] [2] Benin adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as French Dahomey, [3] and has never observed daylight saving time. [1]
Nigeria observes West Africa Time (WAT), which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+01:00), 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. Prior to 1 January 1914, Nigeria was not unified; the ...
Africa/Monrovia. Time in Liberia is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00 ). [1] [2] Liberia shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa where it was formerly known as Western Sahara Standard Time (WSST). [3] Liberia has never observed daylight saving time (DST).
South African Standard Time (SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho. The zone is two hours ahead of UTC (UTC+02:00) and is the same as Central Africa Time. Daylight saving time is not observed in either time zone. Solar noon in this time zone occurs at 30° E in SAST, effectively making ...
Time in Chad is given by a single time zone, denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00 ). [1] [2] Chad shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa. [3] Chad does not observe daylight saving time (DST). [4]