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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 with Central European Time (CET) during winter, and Western European Summer Time (WEST) / British Summer Time (BST) during summer.
Names for the offsets vary by country and jurisdiction: [3] in Africa, UTC+01:00 is commonly known as "West Africa Time", however Algeria, [14] Morocco and Tunisia [15] designate the offset by its European name, "Central European Time"; UTC+02:00 – commonly known as "Central Africa Time" – is designated as "South African Standard Time" by ...
Nigeria observes West Africa Time (WAT), which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time , year-round as standard time. Nigeria has never observed daylight saving time. It shares WAT with fourteen other countries in Africa. Nigeria's local mean time was UTC+00:13:35.
In the IANA time zone database, Cameroon is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Douala."CM" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Cameroon directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [4]
In the IANA time zone database, Chad is given one zone in the file zone.tab—Africa/Ndjamena. "TD" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Chad directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [5]
The main purpose of this page is to list the current standard time offsets of different countries, territories and regions. Information on daylight saving time or historical changes in offsets can be found in the individual offset articles (e.g. UTC+01:00) or the country-specific time articles (e.g. Time in Russia).
The Republic of the Congo observes a single time zone year-round, denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00). [1] IANA time zone database.
If expressed as summer times, these would have been equivalent to West Africa Summer Time and West Africa Standard Time, however Namibia was the only state in Africa to use the combination of UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00. Central European Time also uses UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00, but the northern seasons are opposite to the southern hemisphere.