Time in Sudan

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| time_zone = Central Africa Time

| initials = CAT

| offset = UTC+02:00

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| adopted = 1931–15 January 2000
1 November 2017 (readopted)

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| tz = Africa/Khartoum

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Time in Sudan is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).[https://www.timetemperature.com/africa/sudan_time_zone.shtml Sudan Time Zone]. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021. Sudan has observed CAT since 1 November 2017. 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;"[https://web.archive.org/web/20000709091447/http://www.sunanews.net/sn13jane.html Clocks to be moved ahead by 60 minutes as of Saturday noon]", 13 January 2000. Sudan News Agency. Archived from the [http://www.sunanews.net/sn13jane.html original] on 9 July 2000. this change was later reverted on 1 November 2017 when Sudan readopted UTC+02:00.Cabinet Resolution No. 352 for the year 2017. Government of Sudan.

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.[https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/sudan/khartoum?year=1970 Khartoum → Daylight Saving Time in Other Years, 1970–1979]. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.[https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/sudan/khartoum?year=1985 Khartoum → Daylight Saving Time in Other Years, 1980–1989]. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.

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:[https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-2020f/africa Africa] at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 29 July 2021.

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| {{Time zone/utc offset link|Africa/Khartoum}}

| {{Time zone/utc dst offset link|Africa/Khartoum}}

References

External links

[https://time.is/sudan Current time in Sudan] at Time.is
[https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sudan Time in Sudan] at TimeAndDate.com

Sudan

Category:Geography of Sudan