Time in Guinea

Time in Guinea
Time zoneGreenwich Mean Time
InitialsGMT
UTC offsetUTC+00:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Conakry

Time in Guinea is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00).[1][2] Guinea shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa.[3] Guinea does not observe daylight saving time (DST).[4]

History

French Guinea—the French colonial possession that preceded Guinea—first adopted UTC−01:00 on 1 January 1912.[5]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Guinea is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Conakry, which is an alias to Africa/Abidjan. "GN" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Guinea directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[6]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
GN +0931−01343 Africa/Conakry +00:00 +00:00

See also

References

  1. ^ "Guinea". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 8 August 2022. time difference: UTC 0
  2. ^ "Guinea time zone". GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  3. ^ Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Guinea Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  5. ^ Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935). Standard Time Throughout the World (3 ed.). United States National Bureau of Standards. pp. 3, 17. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Africa". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 8 August 2022.


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