Time in Guinea

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Time in Guinea
Time zoneGreenwich Mean Time
InitialsGMT
UTC offsetUTC+00:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Conakry

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

History

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French Guinea—the French colonial possession that preceded Guinea—first adopted UTC−01:00 on 1 January 1912.[5]

IANA time zone database

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In the IANA time zone database, Guinea is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Conakry, which is an alias to Africa/Abidjan. "GN" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Guinea 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 offset DST
GN +0931−01343 Africa/Conakry +00:00 +00:00

See also

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References

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  3. ^ Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
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