Time in Ghana
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The western African country Ghana observes a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00).[1][2] Ghana 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] Ghana does not have an associated daylight saving time (DST).[4] It previously observed DST as the erstwhile Gold Coast under British rule between 1919 and 1942, and 1950 and 1956.
| Time in Ghana | |
|---|---|
| |
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time |
| Initials | GMT |
| UTC offset | UTC+00:00 |
| Standard meridian | 7th parallel north |
| Time notation | 24-hour clock |
| Adopted | 2 November 1915 24 October 1945 (readopted) |
| Daylight saving time | |
| DST not observed | |
| tz database | |
| Africa/Accra | |
History
Ghana, as the erstwhile British Gold Coast colony, adopted Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+00:00) on 2 November 1915 via the Interpretation Amendment Ordinance.[5] Daylight saving time (DST) was first introduced in 1919, advancing the clock twenty minutes to UTC+00:20 at 02:00 (local time) on the first day of September and reverting to UTC+00:00 – the standard time – on the first day of January at 02:00.[6] In 1940, the start date was changed to 1 May.[7] DST was briefly abolished with UTC+00:30 adopted as standard time between 1942 and 1945,[8] before both changes were revoked and UTC+00:00 was readopted as standard time.[9] DST was abolished the same year, however, but briefly reintroduced again for the final time between 1950 and 1956 with a thirty-minute offset from UTC.[10]
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Ghana is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Accra. "GH" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Ghana directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[11]