Time in Zambia | |
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Time zone | Central Africa Time |
Initials | CAT |
UTC offset | UTC+02:00 |
Adopted | 1903 (as North-Eastern Rhodesia) |
Daylight saving time | |
DST not observed | |
tz database | |
Africa/Lusaka |
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]
In the IANA time zone database, Zambia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/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 |
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ZM | −1525+02817 | Africa/Lusaka | +02:00 | +02:00 |