Time in Mauritania explained

Time in Mauritania
Time Zone:	Greenwich Mean Time
Initials:	GMT
Dst:	no
Tz:	Africa/Nouakchott

Time in Mauritania is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT;).^{[1] [2]} Mauritania shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa.^[3] Mauritania does not observe daylight saving time (DST).^[4]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Mauritania is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Nouakchott, which is an alias to Africa/Abidjan. "MR" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Mauritania directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:^[5]

See also

• Time in Africa
• List of time zones by country

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mauritania. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 10 August 2022. time difference: UTC 0.
2. Web site: Mauritania time zone. GreenwichMeanTime.com. 10 August 2022.
3. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/wet Western European Time
4. Web site: Mauritania Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. 10 August 2022.
5. Web site: Africa. tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. 10 August 2022.