Time in Ghana
Time zoneGreenwich Mean Time
InitialsGMT
UTC offsetUTC±00:00
Standard meridian7th parallel north
Time notation24-hour clock
Adopted2 November 1915
24 October 1945 (readopted)
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Accra

The western African country Ghana observes a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00).[1][2] Ghana shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa where it was formerly known as Western Sahara Standard Time (WSST).[3] Ghana does not have an associated daylight saving time (DST).[4] It previously observed DST as the erstwhile Gold Coast under British rule between 1919 and 1942, and 1950 and 1956.

History

Ghana, as the erstwhile British Gold Coast colony, adopted Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±00:00) on 2 November 1915 via the Interpretation Amendment Ordinance.[5] Daylight saving time (DST) was first introduced in 1919, advancing the clock twenty minutes to UTC+00:20 at 02:00 (local time) on the first day of September and reverting to UTC±00:00 – the standard time – on the first day of January at 02:00.[6] In 1940, the start date was changed to 1 May.[7] DST was briefly abolished with UTC+00:30 adopted as standard time between 1942 and 1945,[8] before both changes were revoked and UTC±00:00 was readopted as standard time.[9] DST was abolished the same year, however, but briefly reintroduced again for the final time between 1950 and 1956 with a thirty minute offset from UTC.[10]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Ghana is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Accra. "GH" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Ghana directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[11]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
GH +0533−00013 Africa/Accra +00:00 +00:00

See also

References

  1. ^ Ghana at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  2. ^ Ghana time zone. GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  3. ^ Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  4. ^ Ghana Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  5. ^ Gold Coast (1915). "Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories, and Togoland Under British Mandate". Government Print. Department. Government of Ghana. p. 69–71. "Interpretation Amendment Ordinance, 1915" (No.24 of 1915), 2 November 1915. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  6. ^ Gold Coast (1910–1936). "Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern territories, and Togoland under British mandate". Government of Ghana. p. 76. "The Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919" (No. 18 of 1919), 2 November 1919. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  7. ^ Gold Coast (January 1941). "Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: Containing All Legislation Enacted During The Year 1940". Government Print. Department. Government of Ghana. p. 22. "Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1940" (No. 9 of 1940), 6 April 1940. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  8. ^ Gold Coast (January 1943). "Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942. Government Print. Department. Government of Ghana. p. 22, "Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment) Regulations, 1942 (Regulations No. 6 of 1942), 31 January 1942 & p. 87, "Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2 Regulations), 1942 (Regulations No. 28 of 1942), 25 April 1942. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  9. ^ Gold Coast (January 1946). "Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945". Government Print. Department. Government of Ghana. p. 256, "Defence (Revocation) (No.4) Regulations, 1945 (Regulations No. 45 of 1945), 24 October 1945. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  10. ^ Gold Coast (1957). "Annual Volume of the Ordinances of the Gold Coast Enacted During the Year 1956". Government Print. Department. Government of Ghana. p. 83, Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 21 of 1956), 29 August 1956. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  11. ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 7 July 2021.

External links

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