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Time in Cameroon
Time zone West Africa Time
InitialsWAT
UTC offset UTC+01:00
Adopted1 January 1912
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Douala

Time in Cameroon is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00). [1] [2] Cameroon adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as Cameroun, [3] and has never observed daylight saving time. [1]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Cameroon is given one zone in the file zone.tabAfrica/Douala. " CM" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Cameroon 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 offset DST
CM +0403+00942 Africa/Douala +01:00 +01:00

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Cameroon Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  2. ^ Cameroon. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "time difference: UTC+2". Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  3. ^ Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935) " Standard Time Throughout the World. U.S.". United States National Bureau of Standards. Government Printing Office. p. 3. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  4. ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 15 September 2021.

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