Time in Botswana

Time in Botswana
Time zoneCentral Africa Time
InitialsCAT
UTC offsetUTC+02:00
Adopted1903
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Gaborone

Time in Botswana is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).[1][2] Botswana has never observed daylight saving time.[1] Botswana, as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, has observed CAT since 1903.[3] In 1885 it used the South African Standard Time (SAST; UTC+01:30) as British Bechuanaland.[3] Before adopting SAST and CAT, it observed local mean time (LMT; UTC+01:43).[3]

Daylight saving time

Further information: Daylight saving time in Africa

Daylight saving time in Botswana was adopted in 1943 and consequently disposed of in 1944.[4]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Botswana is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Gaborone. "BW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Botswana 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 CAT
BW −2439+02555 Africa/Gaborone +02:00 UTC+02:00

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Botswana Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Botswana § Capital". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Time Zone & Clock Changes in Gaborone, Botswana". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  4. ^ Young, Angelo (10 March 2023). "Countries that no longer observe daylight saving time". 24/7 Wall Street.
  5. ^ Olson, Arthur David (17 May 2009). "Africa at the tz database". Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 12 July 2024.
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