Time in Guinea is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00).[1][2] Guinea shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa.[3] Guinea does not observe daylight saving time (DST).[4]
| Time in Guinea | |
|---|---|
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time |
| Initials | GMT |
| UTC offset | UTC+00:00 |
| Daylight saving time | |
| DST not observed | |
| tz database | |
| Africa/Conakry | |
History
editFrench Guinea—the French colonial possession that preceded Guinea—first adopted UTC−01:00 on 1 January 1912.[5]
IANA time zone database
editIn the IANA time zone database, Guinea is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Conakry, which is an alias to Africa/Abidjan. "GN" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Guinea directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[6]
| c.c.* | coordinates* | TZ* | Comments | UTC offset | DST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN | +0931−01343 | Africa/Conakry | +00:00 | +00:00 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Guinea". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 8 August 2022.
time difference: UTC 0
- ^ "Guinea time zone". GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- ^ Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ "Guinea Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- ^ Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935). Standard Time Throughout the World (3 ed.). United States National Bureau of Standards. pp. 3, 17. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- ^ "Africa". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
External links
edit- Current time in Guinea at Time.is
- Time in Guinea at TimeAndDate.com
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