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*CommentsUTC offsetDST
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