Time in Sierra Leone

Time in Sierra Leone
Time zoneGreenwich Mean Time
InitialsGMT
UTC offsetUTC+00:00
Adopted1939
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Freetown

Time in Sierra Leone is given by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00).[1] Sierra Leone has never observed daylight saving time.[2] Sierra Leone adopted its current time zone in 1939,[3] switching from UTC−01:00.[4]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Sierra Leone is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Freetown. "SL" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Sierra Leone 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
SL +0830−01315 Africa/Freetown +00:00 +00:00

References

  1. ^ Sierra Leone. "time difference: UTC 0". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  2. ^ Sierra Leone Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. ^ Ogle, Vanessa (2015). The Global Transformation of Time 1870-1950. Harvard University Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780674737020. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  4. ^ United States. National Bureau of Standards, Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935) Standard Time Throughout the World. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 20. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  5. ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 17 September 2021.


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