Time_in_Sudan Knowpia

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 Sudan is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).^[1] Sudan has observed CAT since 1 November 2017.^[1] Sudan has not observed daylight saving time since 14 October 1985.

History edit

Sudan observed the UTC offset of 2:10:08 as its local mean time until 1931, when it adopted UTC+02:00 as standard time. On 15 January 2000, Sudan's time moved forward one hour to UTC+03:00;^[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 the IANA time zone database, Sudan is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Khartoum. "SD" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country 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

References edit

^ ^a ^b Sudan 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 the original on 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.
^ ^a ^b Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 29 July 2021.