Time in Mauritania
Time zoneGreenwich Mean Time
InitialsGMT
UTC offsetUTC±00:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Nouakchott

Time in Mauritania is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00).[1][2] Mauritania shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa.[3] Mauritania does not observe daylight saving time (DST).[4]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Mauritania is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Nouakchott, which is an alias to Africa/Abidjan. "MR" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Mauritania directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[5]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offsetDST
MR+1806−01557Africa/Nouakchott +00:00 +00:00

See also

References

  1. "Mauritania". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 10 August 2022. time difference: UTC 0
  2. "Mauritania time zone". GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  4. "Mauritania Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  5. "Africa". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 10 August 2022.


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