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West Africa Time. a The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland. b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively. 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 ...
Time in Senegal is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00 ). [1] [2] Senegal shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa. [3] Senegal does not observe daylight saving time (DST). [4]
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 ...
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 ...
Senegal, [f] officially the Republic of Senegal, [g] is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land ...
List of tz database time zones. The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2024a of the tz database. [2]
French West Africa ( French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali ), French Guinea (now Guinea ), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso ), Dahomey (now Benin) and Niger. The federation existed from 1895 until 1958.
The National Council passed the Namibian Time Bill 2017 in August 2017 and repealed the 1993 act, placing Namibia back into the South African Standard Time zone of UTC+02:00. Tunisia. Tunisia adopted daylight saving time for the first time in 2005 starting 1 May 2005 and following EU time schedules thereafter.