![]() ![]() South African Standard Time is defined as "Coordinated Universal Time plus two hours" ( UTC+02:00) as defined in South African National Government Gazette No. South Africa observed a daylight saving time of GMT+03:00 ( UTC+03:00) between 20 September 1942 to 21 March 1943 and 19 September 1943 to 19 March 1944. ![]() The observatory's local mean time was ( UTC+01:52). Prior to 1 March 1903, the Colony of Natal was already using a uniform time supplied by the Natal Observatory. On 1 March 1903 GMT+02:00 was adopted, which became the current UTC+02:00 when UTC replaced GMT for most purposes. The governments of the Orange Free State, Transvaal and the Cape Colony officially adopted a uniform standard time of UTC+01:30 which was defined as mean time 22.5° east of Greenwich. In 1892, a railway conference was held in Bloemfontein and discussed difficulty of working a railway system, in the absence of a uniform time system. History īefore 8 February 1892, there was no uniformity of time in South Africa and local mean time was in use at the various towns. The South African National Time Standard, or 'SA Time' Master Clock, is maintained at the Time and Frequency Laboratory of the National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA) at Pretoria and is distributed publicly by an NTP Internet Time service. To illustrate, daylight hours for South Africa's western and easternmost major cities: Sunrise and sunset are thus relatively late in Cape Town, compared to the rest of the country. Everywhere on land west of 22☃0′ E effectively experiences year-round daylight saving time because of its location in true UTC+01:00 but still being in South African Standard Time. The western Northern Cape and Western Cape differ, however. Thus, most of South Africa's population experience true solar noon at approximately 12:00 daily. South Africa Standard Time is consistent with UTC +2. Solar noon in this time zone occurs at 30° E in SAST, effectively making Pietermaritzburg at the correct solar noon point, with Johannesburg and Pretoria slightly west at 28° E and Durban slightly east at 31° E. Phoenix, for example, is on the 122nd degree of longitude west and thus in the UTC-7 time zone. Daylight saving time is not observed in either time zone. The zone is two hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+02:00) and is the same as Central Africa Time. South African Standard Time ( SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho. Note: Cape Verde Time is UTC/GMT -1 and Mauritius Time and Seychelles are UTC/GMT +4.A The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland.ī Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively. This change had no impact on the country's time observance. The king of Swaziland announced in 2018 that the country has been renamed eSwatini which means "land of the Swazis". The government of Morocco announced that effective Octothe country will observe daylight saving time year round UTC/GMT + 1h year round except during Ramadan when the country will observe UTC/GMT + 0h. The government of Egypt has announced the country will observe daylight saving time in 2023. ![]() View Africa Time Zone abbreviations for more details. (UTC/GMT +4) Mauritius Time Zone, Reunion Time Zone and Seychelles Time Zone. (UTC/GMT +2 ) Central Africa Time Zone, Eastern European Time Zone, and South Africa Time Zone. (UTC/GMT +1) Central European Time Zone and West Africa Time Zone. Does West Africa observe Daylight Saving. (UTC/GMT +0) Greenwich Mean Time Zone, Western European Time Zone and Western Sahara Time Zone. West Africa Standard Time is 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time ( GMT+1 ). From west to east the time zones in Africa are: Africa time zone offsets range from UTC/GMT -1 to UTC/GMT + 4. Africa uses six time zones and thirteen standard time zone names to describe them. ![]()
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