Time in Liberia | |
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Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time |
Initials | GMT |
UTC offset | UTC±00:00 |
Adopted | 7 January 1972 |
Daylight saving time | |
DST not observed | |
tz database | |
Africa/Monrovia |
Time in Liberia is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00). [1] [2] Liberia shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa where it was formerly known as Western Sahara Standard Time (WSST). [3] Liberia has never observed daylight saving time (DST). [4]
Liberia first adopted the UTC offset -0:43:08 (called Liberia Mean Time; LMT) as it was the geographical central meridian on which the capital Monrovia was located. [5] The time zone was renamed to Monrovia Mean Time in 1882. [5] In March 1919, the offset was redefined forward by 1 minute and 22 seconds to -0:44:30. [6] [7] Liberia adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00) on 7 January 1972. [8]
In the IANA time zone database, Liberia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Monrovia. " LR" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Liberia 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 offset | DST |
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LR | +0618−01047 | Africa/Monrovia | +00:00 | +00:00 |