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
editThe 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) | UTC+01:00 | not observed | - |
-1140+2728 | Africa/Lubumbashi | Eastern DRC (Kindu, Bukama, Lubumbashi) | UTC+02:00 | - |
References
edit- ^ "Democratic Republic of the Congo Time Zone".
- ^ "Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): Time Zones Africa - Democratic Republic of Congo". wwp.greenwichmeantime.com. Archived from the original on 2004-02-18.