Time in Benin

Time in Benin is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West [Africa Time]. Benin adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as French Dahomey, and has never observed daylight [saving time].

IANA time zone database

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:

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