Time in Ecuador
Ecuador Time (ECT), as named by the IANA time zone database, is the time observed in mainland Ecuador since 1931. Ecuador Time is at UTC-05:00[1] and has no daylight saving, except for a brief period from late 1992 to early 1993 during the government of president Sixto Durán Ballén.[2] Galápagos Province observed Ecuador Time until 1986, when it switched to Galápagos Time (GALT), at UTC-06:00.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Time zone: Ecuador at timeanddate.com
- ^ Poblete, Juan Correa (10 November 2009). "La 'hora de Sixto' fue en 1993". El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 August 2024.