Time in Honduras

Time in Honduras
Time zoneCentral Standard Time
InitialsCST
UTC offsetUTC−6
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
America/Tegucigalpa

Honduras observes Central Standard Time (UTC−6) year-round.[1]

Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time was used in 1987, 1988, and 2006.

President Manuel Zelaya advanced the nationwide clock one hour forward on May 7, 2006, for three months until August 7, after which the nationwide clock was turned back one hour. The government reported energy savings of 90 million lempiras (about US$4.7 million) during the time DST was used in 2006. Honduras chose not to return to using daylight saving time the following year, with the government citing natural factors why the clock change is no longer necessary.[2]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Honduras is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Tegucigalpa. "HN" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Honduras directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[3]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
HN +1406−08713 America/Tegucigalpa −06:00 −06:00

References

  1. ^ "Honduras". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  2. ^ cronologia/-/meta/redaccion-la-prensa. "Cambio de hora dejó un ahorro de 4,7 millones de dólares". www.laprensa.hn (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  3. ^ "North America". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 20 October 2022.


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