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Time in Botswana


Time in Botswana
Central Africa Time
CAT
UTC+02:00
1903
DST not observed
Africa/Gaborone

Time in Botswana is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00). Botswana has never observed daylight saving time. Botswana, as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, has observed CAT since 1903. In 1885 it used the South African Standard Time (SAST; UTC+01:30) as British Bechuanaland. Before adopting SAST and CAT, it observed local mean time (LMT; UTC+01:43).

Daylight saving time in Botswana was adopted in 1943 and consequently disposed of in 1944.

In the IANA time zone database, Botswana is given one zone in the file zone.tabAfrica/Gaborone. "BW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Botswana directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:

c.c.*coordinates*TZ*CommentsUTC offsetCAT
BW−2439+02555Africa/Gaborone+02:00+02:00
  • List of time zones by country

  • List of UTC time offsets

  • Current time in Botswana at Time.is

  • Time in Botswana at TimeAndDate.com

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