Time in Benin
| Time in Benin | |
|---|---|
| Time zone | West Africa Time |
| Initials | WAT |
| UTC offset | UTC+01:00 |
| Adopted | 1 January 1912 |
| Daylight saving time | |
| DST not observed | |
| tz database | |
| Africa/Porto-Novo | |
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]
IANA time zone database
[edit]In the IANA time zone database, Benin is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Porto-Novo. "BJ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Benin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJ | +0629+00237 | Africa/Porto-Novo | +01:00 | +01:00 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Benin Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ Benin. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935) "Standard Time Throughout the World. U.S.". United States National Bureau of Standards. Government Printing Office. p. 3. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 15 September 2021.
External links
[edit]- Current time in Benin at Time.is
- Time in Benin at TimeAndDate.com
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