:Time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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| UTC+01:00, West Africa Time (WAT)

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| UTC+02:00, Central Africa Time (CAT)

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo observes UTC+01:00 (West Africa Time) and UTC+02:00 (Central Africa Time).{{Cite web|url=http://www.timetemperature.com/africa/congo_democratic_republic_time.shtml|title = Democratic Republic of the Congo Time Zone}} It does not observe DST.{{cite web |url=http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/democratic-republic-of-congo/ |title=Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): Time Zones Africa - Democratic Republic of Congo |website=wwp.greenwichmeantime.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040218110105/http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/democratic-republic-of-congo/ |archive-date=2004-02-18}} It is the only country in Africa to use more than one time zone.

IANA time zone database

The IANA time zone database contains two zone for the country. The columns marked * contain the data from the file zone.tab of the database.

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! coordinates*

! TZ*

! comments*

! Standard time

! Summer time

! Notes

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| -0419+1519

| Africa/Kinshasa

| Western DRC (Kinshasa, Boende, Zongo)

| tUTC+01:00

| rowspan="2"| not observed

| -

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| -1140+2728

| Africa/Lubumbashi

| Eastern DRC (Kindu, Bukama, Lubumbashi)

| sUTC+02:00

| -

References

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Congo, DRC

Category:Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Congo, DRC

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