| Time in Zimbabwe | |
| Time Zone: | Central Africa Time |
| Initials: | CAT |
| Adopted: | 1903 (as Southern Rhodesia) |
| Dst: | no |
| Tz: | Africa/Harare |
Time in Zimbabwe is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT;).[1] [2] Zimbabwe has never observed daylight saving time.[1] Zimbabwe, as Southern Rhodesia, has observed CAT since 1903.[3]
In the IANA time zone database, Zimbabwe is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Harare. "ZW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Zimbabwe directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[4]