Time in Rwanda is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).[1][2] Rwanda has never observed daylight saving time.[1]

Time in Rwanda
Time zoneCentral Africa Time
InitialsCAT
UTC offsetUTC+02:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Kigali

IANA time zone database

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In the IANA time zone database, Rwanda is given one zone in the file zone.tabAfrica/Kigali. "RW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Rwanda directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[3]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
RW −0157+03004 Africa/Kigali +02:00 +02:00

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Rwanda Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  2. ^ Rwanda. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  3. ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 5 August 2021.
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