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Time in Gabon

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Time in Gabon
Time zoneWest Africa Time
InitialsWAT
UTC offsetUTC+01:00
Adopted1 January 1912
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Libreville

Time in Gabon is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00).[1][2] Gabon adopted WAT on 1 January 1912,[3] and has never observed daylight saving time.[1]

IANA time zone database

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In the IANA time zone database, Gabon is given one zone in the file zone.tabAfrica/Libreville. "GA" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Gabon directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[4]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
GA +0023+00927 Africa/Libreville +01:00 +01:00

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Gabon Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  2. ^ Gabon. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  3. ^ Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935) "Standard Time Throughout the World. U.S.". United States National Bureau of Standards. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  4. ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 15 September 2021.
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