Time in Eritrea

Summary

Time in Eritrea is in a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00).[1][2] Eritrea has never observed daylight saving time.[3] It has consistently observed EAT since its independence in 1993.

Time in Eritrea
Time zoneEast Africa Time
InitialsEAT
UTC offsetUTC+03:00
Adopted1993
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Asmara

IANA time zone database edit

In the IANA time zone database, Eritrea is given one zone in the file zone.tabAfrica/Asmara. "ER" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Eritrea 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
ER +1520+03853 Africa/Asmara +03:00 +03:00

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Eritrea. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  2. ^ Eritrea Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  3. ^ DST Changes in Eritrea. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  4. ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 30 July 2021.

External links edit

  • Current time in Eritrea at Time.is
  • Time in Eritrea at TimeAndDate.com