Time in Guinea

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). Guinea shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa. Guinea does not observe daylight saving time (DST).

History

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

IANA time zone database

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:

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offsetDST
GN+0931−01343Africa/Conakry+00:00+00:00

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Guinea - The World Factbook". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on 2026-01-08. Retrieved 2026-05-02.
  2. ↑ "Guinea time zone". GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  3. ↑ Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "Guinea Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  5. ↑ Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935). Standard Time Throughout the World (3 ed.). United States National Bureau of Standards. pp. 3, 17. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  6. ↑ "Africa". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 8 August 2022.