Time in Benin

Time in Benin
Time zoneWest Africa Time
InitialsWAT
UTC offsetUTC+01:00
Adopted1 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

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

References

  1. ^ a b Benin Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  2. ^ Benin. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 15 September 2021.


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