Time in Liberia

Time in Liberia
Time zoneGreenwich Mean Time
InitialsGMT
UTC offsetUTC+00:00
Adopted7 January 1972
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Monrovia

Time in Liberia is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00).[1][2] Liberia shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa where it was formerly known as Western Sahara Standard Time (WSST).[3] Liberia has never observed daylight saving time (DST).[4]

History

Liberia first adopted the UTC offset -0:43:08 (called Liberia Mean Time; LMT) as it was the geographical central meridian on which the capital Monrovia was located.[5] The time zone was renamed to Monrovia Mean Time in 1882.[5] In March 1919, the offset was redefined forward by 1 minute and 22 seconds to -0:44:30.[6][7] Liberia adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00) on 7 January 1972.[8]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Liberia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Monrovia. "LR" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Liberia directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[5]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
LR +0618−01047 Africa/Monrovia +00:00 +00:00

See also

References

  1. ^ Liberia at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 26 July 2021. "time difference: UTC 0".
  2. ^ Liberia time zone. GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  3. ^ Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  4. ^ Liberia Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  5. ^ a b c Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. ^ United States Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office (1 January 1968) The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1970. (1st edition). United States Government Publishing Office. p. 264. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  7. ^ Shanks, Thomas G. (1 July 1999) The International Atlas: World Longitudes & Latitudes, Time Changes and Time Zones. (5th edition). ACS Publications. Retrieved 26 July 2021.[page needed]
  8. ^ Tolbert, William R. (1972). Republic of Liberia presidential papers: documents, diary and record of activities of the Chief Executive, July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972. Monrovia, R.L. [i.e. Republic of Liberia]: Executive Mansion. p. 330. Retrieved 26 July 2021.