Time in Zambia is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).[1][2] Zambia has never observed daylight saving time.[1] Zambia, as North-Eastern Rhodesia, has observed CAT since 1903.[3]

Time in Zambia
Time zoneCentral Africa Time
InitialsCAT
UTC offsetUTC+02:00
Adopted1903 (as North-Eastern Rhodesia)
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Lusaka

IANA time zone database

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In the IANA time zone database, Zambia is given one zone in the file zone.tabAfrica/Lusaka. "ZM" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Zambia 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
ZM −1525+02817 Africa/Lusaka +02:00 +02:00

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Zambia Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ Zambia. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  3. ^ Time Changes in Lusaka Over the Years | 1903–1924. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  4. ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 6 August 2021.
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