Time in Tunisia explained
Time in Tunisia is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central European Time (CET;).[1] [2] [3] Tunisia adopted WAT on 12 April 1911,[4] and does not observe daylight saving time,[2] though previously it has.
Daylight saving time
Tunisia previously observed daylight saving time – advancing the clock forward one hour – between 1939 and 1945, 1977 and 1978, 1988 and 1990, and finally between 2006[5] and 2008.[6]
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Tunisia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Tunis. "TN" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Tunisia directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[7]
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Bartky, Ian R. (2007) "One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity". Stanford University Press. p. 134. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- https://www.timetemperature.com/africa/tunisia_time_zone.shtml Tunisia Time Zone
- https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/tunisia/ Tunisia
- 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.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050427061632/http://fr.news.yahoo.com/050426/5/4dumk.html La Tunisie avance son horaire officiel pour économiser de l'énergie
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110716083251/http://ar.webmanagercenter.com/management/article-2178-تقارير-التخلي-نهائيا-عن-اعتماد-التوقيت-الصيفي-في-تونس التخلي نهائيا عن اعتماد التوقيت الصيفي في تونس
- https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-2020f/africa Africa
