Time in Sudan
| Time in Sudan | |
|---|---|
| Time zone | Central Africa Time |
| Initials | CAT |
| UTC offset | UTC+02:00 |
| Adopted | 1931–15 January 2000 1 November 2017 (readopted) |
| Daylight saving time | |
| DST not observed | |
| tz database | |
| Africa/Khartoum | |
Time in Sudanis given by a singletime zone,officially denoted asCentral Africa Time(CAT;UTC+02:00).[1]Sudan has observed CAT since 1 November 2017.[1]Sudan has not observeddaylight saving timesince 14 October 1985.
History
[edit]Sudan observed theUTC offsetof 2:10:08 as itslocal mean timeuntil 1931, when it adoptedCentral Africa Time(UTC+02:00) asstandard time.On 15 January 2000, Sudan's time moved forward one hour toEast Africa Time(UTC+03:00), causing the territory to deviate from solar time;[2]this change was later reverted on 1 November 2017 when Sudan readopted UTC+02:00.[3]
Daylight saving time
[edit]Sudan previously observed daylight saving time between 1970 and 1985, moving the clock forward one hour from UTC+02:00 to UTC+03:00.[4][5][6]
IANA time zone database
[edit]In theIANA time zone database,Sudan is given one zone in the filezone.tab–Africa/Khartoum."SD"refers to the country'sISO 3166-1 alpha-2country code.Data for Sudan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD | +1536+03232 | Africa/Khartoum | +02:00 | +02:00 |
See also
[edit]- Time in South Sudan
- Daylight saving time in Africa
- List of time zones by country
- List of UTC time offsets
References
[edit]- ^abSudan Time Zone.TimeTemperature.com.Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^"Clocks to be moved ahead by 60 minutes as of Saturday noon",13 January 2000.Sudan News Agency.Archived from theoriginalon 9 July 2000.
- ^Cabinet Resolution No. 352 for the year 2017.Government of Sudan.
- ^Khartoum → Daylight Saving Time in Other Years, 1970–1979.TimeAndDate.com.Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^Khartoum → Daylight Saving Time in Other Years, 1980–1989.TimeAndDate.com.Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^abAfricaat thetz database.Internet Assigned Numbers Authority(IANA). Retrieved 29 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Current time in SudanatTime.is
- Time in SudanatTimeAndDate.com
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