Time in Tanzania is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00).[1][2][3] Tanzania does not observe daylight saving time.[3]

Time in Tanzania
Time zoneEast Africa Time
InitialsEAT
UTC offsetUTC+03:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Dar es Salaam

IANA time zone database

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In the IANA time zone database, Tanzania is given one zone in the file zone.tabAfrica/Dar es Salaam, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "TZ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Tanzania 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 offsetDST
TZ−0648+03917Africa/Dar_es_Salaam+03:00+03:00

See also

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References

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  1. Time in Tanzania. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  2. Tanzania. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  3. 1 2 Tanzania Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 3 September August 2021.
  4. Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 3 September 2021.
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