Time in Sudan

Time in Sudan
Time zone	Central Africa Time
Initials	CAT
UTC offset	UTC+02:00
Adopted	1931–15 January 2000 1 November 2017 (readopted)
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Khartoum

Time in Sudan is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).[1] Sudan has observed CAT since 1 November 2017.[1] Sudan has not observed daylight saving time since 14 October 1985.

History

Sudan observed the UTC offset of 2:10:08 as its local mean time until 1931, when it adopted Central Africa Time (UTC+02:00) as standard time. On 15 January 2000, Sudan's time moved forward one hour to East Africa Time (UTC+03:00), causing the territory to deviate from solar time;[2] this change was later reverted on 1 November 2017 when Sudan readopted UTC+02:00.[3]

Daylight saving time

Sudan previously observed daylight saving time between 1970 and 1985, moving the clock forward one hour from UTC+02:00 to UTC+03:00.[4][5][6]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Sudan is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Khartoum. "SD" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Sudan 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
SD	+1536+03232	Africa/Khartoum		+02:00	+02:00

See also

• Time in South Sudan
• Daylight saving time in Africa
• List of time zones by country
• List of UTC time offsets

References

1. Sudan Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
2. "Clocks to be moved ahead by 60 minutes as of Saturday noon", 13 January 2000. Sudan News Agency. Archived from the original on 9 July 2000.
3. Cabinet Resolution No. 352 for the year 2017. Government of Sudan.
4. Khartoum → Daylight Saving Time in Other Years, 1970–1979. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
5. Khartoum → Daylight Saving Time in Other Years, 1980–1989. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
6. Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 29 July 2021.

External links

• Current time in Sudan at Time.is
• Time in Sudan at TimeAndDate.com