Time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    UTC+01:00, West Africa Time (WAT)
    UTC+02:00, Central Africa Time (CAT)

The Democratic Republic of the Congo observes UTC+01:00 (West Africa Time) and UTC+02:00 (Central Africa Time).[1] It does not observe DST.[2] It is the only country in Africa to use more than one time zone.

IANA time zone database

The IANA time zone database contains two zone for the country. The columns marked * contain the data from the file zone.tab of the database.

coordinates* TZ* comments* Standard time Summer time Notes
-0419+1519 Africa/Kinshasa Western DRC (Kinshasa, Boende, Zongo) tUTC+01:00 not observed -
-1140+2728 Africa/Lubumbashi Eastern DRC (Kindu, Bukama, Lubumbashi) sUTC+02:00 -

References

  1. ^ "Democratic Republic of the Congo Time Zone".
  2. ^ "Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): Time Zones Africa - Democratic Republic of Congo". wwp.greenwichmeantime.com. Archived from the original on 2004-02-18.


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