Time in Eritrea
Time zoneEast Africa Time
InitialsEAT
UTC offsetUTC+03:00
Adopted1993
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Asmara

Time in Eritrea is in a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00).[1][2] Eritrea has never observed daylight saving time.[3] It has consistently observed EAT since its independence in 1993.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Eritrea is given one zone in the file zone.tabAfrica/Asmara. "ER" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Eritrea directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[4]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offsetDST
ER+1520+03853Africa/Asmara +03:00 +03:00

See also

References

  1. Eritrea. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  2. Eritrea Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  3. DST Changes in Eritrea. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  4. Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 30 July 2021.


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