Time in Eritrea | |
Time Zone: | East Africa Time |
Initials: | EAT |
Adopted: | 1993 |
Dst: | no |
Tz: | Africa/Asmara |
Time in Eritrea is in a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT;).[1] [2] Eritrea has never observed daylight saving time.[3] It has consistently observed EAT since its independence in 1993.
In the IANA time zone database, Eritrea is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/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]