Time in Benin explained

Time in Benin
Time Zone:West Africa Time
Initials:WAT
Adopted:1 January 1912
Dst:no
Tz:Africa/Porto-Novo

Time in Benin is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT;).[1] [2] Benin adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as French Dahomey,[3] and has never observed daylight saving time.[1]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Benin is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Porto-Novo. "BJ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Benin directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[4]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.timetemperature.com/africa/niger_time_zone.shtml Benin Time Zone
  2. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/benin/ Benin
  3. Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935) "Standard Time Throughout the World. U.S.". United States National Bureau of Standards. Government Printing Office. p. 3. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  4. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-2020f/africa Africa

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