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East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa. The time zone is three hours ahead of UTC , which is the same as Moscow Time, Arabia Standard Time, Further-eastern European Time and Eastern European Summer Time. As this time zone is predominantly in the equatorial region, there is no significant change in day length throughout ...
A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate and two parts of the African Plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
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 ...
Occurring between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East African region. [7] Said to be "the worst in 60 years", [8] the drought caused a severe food crisis across Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya that threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people. [6] Many refugees from southern Somalia fled to neighboring ...
The East African Federation ( Swahili: Shirikisho la Afrika Mashariki) is a proposed political union of the eight sovereign states of the East African Community in the African Great Lakes region – Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Somalia and Uganda – as a single federated sovereign state. [6]
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.
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:
In the IANA time zone database, Tanzania is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Dar es Salaam, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "TZ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Tanzania directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: