Time in Botswana


Time in Botswana is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time. 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 as British Bechuanaland. Before adopting SAST and CAT, it observed local mean time.

Daylight saving time

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

IANA time zone database

In the IANA [time zone database], Botswana is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/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
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