Time in Chad is given by a single time zone, denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00).[1][2] Chad shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa.[3] Chad does not observe daylight saving time (DST).[4]

Time in Chad
Time zoneWest Africa Time
InitialsWAT
UTC offsetUTC+01:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Ndjamena

IANA time zone database

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In the IANA time zone database, Chad is given one zone in the file zone.tab—Africa/Ndjamena. "TD" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Chad 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
TD +1207+01503 Africa/Ndjamena +01:00 +01:00

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Chad". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 18 August 2022. time difference: UTC +1
  2. ^ "Chad time zone". GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  3. ^ Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Chad Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Africa". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
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