Time in Zambia
Time in Zambia | |
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Time zone | Central Africa Time |
Initials | CAT |
UTC offset | UTC+02:00 |
Adopted | 1903 (as North-Eastern Rhodesia) |
Daylight saving time | |
DST not observed | |
tz database | |
Africa/Lusaka |
Time in Zambia is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).[1][2] Zambia has never observed daylight saving time.[1] Zambia, as North-Eastern Rhodesia, has observed CAT since 1903.[3]
IANA time zone database
[edit]In the IANA time zone database, Zambia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Lusaka. "ZM" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Zambia directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[4]
c.c.* | coordinates* | TZ* | Comments | UTC offset | DST |
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ZM | −1525+02817 | Africa/Lusaka | +02:00 | +02:00 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Zambia Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ Zambia. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ Time Changes in Lusaka Over the Years | 1903–1924. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
- ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- Current time in Zambia at Time.is
- Time in Zambia at TimeAndDate.com