Time in Sudan
Time zoneCentral Africa Time
InitialsCAT
UTC offsetUTC+02:00
Adopted1931–15 January 2000
1 November 2017 (readopted)
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Khartoum

Time in Sudan is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).[1] Sudan has observed CAT since 1 November 2017.[1] Sudan has not observed daylight saving time since 14 October 1985.

History

Sudan observed the UTC offset of 2:10:08 as its local mean time until 1931, when it adopted UTC+02:00 as standard time. On 15 January 2000, Sudan's time moved forward one hour to UTC+03:00;[2] this change was later reverted on 1 November 2017 when Sudan readopted UTC+02:00.[3]

Daylight saving time

Sudan previously observed daylight saving time between 1970 and 1985, moving the clock forward one hour from UTC+02:00 to UTC+03:00.[4][5][6]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Sudan is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Khartoum. "SD" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Sudan directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[6]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offsetDST
SD+1536+03232Africa/Khartoum +02:00 +02:00

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Sudan Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Clocks to be moved ahead by 60 minutes as of Saturday noon", 13 January 2000. Sudan News Agency. Archived from the original on 9 July 2000.
  3. ↑ Cabinet Resolution No. 352 for the year 2017. Government of Sudan.
  4. ↑ Khartoum → Daylight Saving Time in Other Years, 1970–1979. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Khartoum → Daylight Saving Time in Other Years, 1980–1989. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  6. 1 2 Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 29 July 2021.


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