Time in Madagascar explained

Time in Madagascar
Time Zone:	East Africa Time
Initials:	EAT
Dst:	no
Tz:	Indian/Antananarivo

Time in Madagascar is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT;).^{[1] [2]} Madagascar does not observe daylight saving time.^{[2] [3]}

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Madagascar is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Indian/Antananarivo, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "MG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Madagascar directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:^[4]

See also

• Time in Africa
• List of time zones by country
• List of UTC time offsets

External links

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

Notes and References

1. https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/madagascar/ Madagascar
2. https://www.timetemperature.com/africa/madagascar_time_zone.shtml Madagascar Time Zone
3. Bradt, Hilary. (2011) Madagascar, 10th Ed.: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. London. p. 2. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
4. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-2020f/africa Africa