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Time in Sierra Leone

Time in Sierra Leone

Time zone used in Sierra Leone

Time in Sierra Leone is given by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00).[1] Sierra Leone has never observed daylight saving time.[2] Sierra Leone adopted its current time zone in 1939,[3] switching from UTC−01:00.[4]

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IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Sierra Leone is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Freetown. "SL" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Sierra Leone directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[5]

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References

  1. [1]
    Sierra Leone. "time difference: UTC 0". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  2. [2]
    Sierra Leone Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. [3]
    Ogle, Vanessa (2015). The Global Transformation of Time 1870-1950. Harvard University Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780674737020. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  4. [4]
    United States. National Bureau of Standards, Gould, Ralph Edgar (1935) Standard Time Throughout the World. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 20. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  5. [5]
    Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 17 September 2021.


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