Time in Mozambique

Time zone| Central Africa Time
Initials| CAT
UTC offset| UTC+02:00
Adopted| 1903 (de facto)
26 May 1911 (de jure)
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Maputo

Time in Mozambique is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).[1][2] Mozambique has never observed daylight saving time.[1][3]

## History

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Mozambique adopted UTC+02:00 (Central Africa Time; CAT) unofficially in 1903,[4] and officially on 26 May 1911.[5][6]

## IANA time zone database

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In the IANA time zone database, Mozambique is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Maputo. "MZ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Mozambique directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[6]

c.c.*  | coordinates*  | TZ*  | Comments  | UTC offset | DST

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MZ | −2558+03235 | Africa/Maputo | Central Africa Time  | +02:00 | +02:00

## See also

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* List of time zones by country
* List of UTC time offsets

## References

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1. ^ a b Mozambique Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
2. ^ Mozambique. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 7 August 2021.
3. ^ DST Changes in Mozambique. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
4. ^ Time Changes in Maputo Over the Years. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
5. ^ 30 de maio de 1911. (in Portuguese). dre.pt. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
6. ^ a b Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 7 August 2021.

## External links

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* Current time in Mozambique at Time.is
* Time in Mozambique at TimeAndDate.com

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