Central Africa Time
UTC-01:00 | Cape Verde Time[a] |
UTC±00:00 | Greenwich Mean Time |
UTC+01:00 | Central European Time West Africa Time |
UTC+02:00 | Central Africa Time Eastern European Time Egypt Standard Time South African Standard Time |
UTC+03:00 | East Africa Time |
UTC+04:00 | Mauritius Time[b] Seychelles Time[b] |
b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively.
Central Africa Time (CAT) also known as South Africa Standard Time (SAST) in South Africa, is a time zone in Africa that is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2). It is the same time as Eastern European Time (EET) during winter, and Central European Summer Time (CEST) during summer. This time zone does not observe daylight saving time, because it is near the equator.
This time zone is used in:
- Botswana
- eastern sections of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Burundi
- Lesotho (as South Africa Standard Time (SAST))
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Namibia, since September 2017
- South Africa (as South Africa Standard Time (SAST))
- Swaziland (as South Africa Standard Time (SAST))
- Sudan, since November 2017
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe