Time in Benin | |
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Time zone | West Africa Time |
Initials | WAT |
UTC offset | UTC+01:00 |
Adopted | 1 January 1912 |
Daylight saving time | |
DST not observed | |
tz database | |
Africa/Porto-Novo |
Time in Benin is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00).[1][2] Benin adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as French Dahomey,[3] and has never observed daylight saving time.[1]
In the IANA time zone database, Benin is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Porto-Novo. "BJ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Benin directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[4]
c.c.* | coordinates* | TZ* | Comments | UTC offset | DST |
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BJ | +0629+00237 | Africa/Porto-Novo | +01:00 | +01:00 |