Time in Ethiopia
The time zone in Ethiopia is East Africa Time . The IANA time zone database identifier is Africa/Addis_Ababa.
Ethiopia does not observe daylight saving time.
Date and time notation
Almost all Ethiopians use a modified 12-hour clock system. The daytime cycle begins at dawn 12:00 and ends at dusk 11:59:59.The nighttime cycle begins at dusk 12:00 and ends at dawn at 11:59:59. The convention is that the day begins at 1:00 o'clock in the morning according to the 12-hour cycle rather than midnight., the modified 12-hour system remained common, despite pressure to follow international norms.
In practice one can subtract 6 hours from EAT to get the Etiopian one. Or reverse: one can add 6 hours to Etiopian time to get the EAT. The Arabic version of this article uses this expression: “local residents effectively observe UTC−03:00”.