Time in Benin
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Time in Benin is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; UTC+01:00).[1][2] Benin adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as French Dahomey,[3] and has never observed daylight saving time.[1]
| Time in Benin | |
|---|---|
| Time zone | West Africa Time |
| Initials | WAT |
| UTC offset | UTC+01:00 |
| Adopted | 1 January 1912 |
| Daylight saving time | |
| DST not observed | |
| tz database | |
| Africa/Porto-Novo | |
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Benin is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Porto-Novo. "BJ" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Benin directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[4]
