Time in Libya
Time zoneEastern European Time
InitialsEET
UTC offsetUTC+02:00
Adopted5 November 2012
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Tripoli

Time in Libya is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Eastern European Time (EET; UTC+02:00).[1][2] The zone is also known as Central Africa Time (CAT). Libya has observed EET since 5 November 2012,[3] after it was announced in 2013 that Libya would be on permanent daylight saving time.[4][5] Libya previously observed several different time zones as standard time and daylight saving time. For residents of western Libya, including Tripoli, solar time is usually one hour behind standard time.

Daylight saving time

Libya previously observed daylight saving time, moving one hour ahead from Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) to Central European Summer Time (CEST; UTC+02:00), each year from 1951 to 1956,[6] 1982 to 1989,[7] 1997,[8] and 2013.[9] Libya announced in 2013 that it would be on permanent daylight saving time.[4]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Libya is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Tripoli. "LY" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Libya 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
LY +3254+01311 Africa/Tripoli +02:00 +02:00

See also

References

  1. ^ Libya at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 26 July 2021. "time difference: UTC+2".
  2. ^ Libya time zone. GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Clocks to go back an hour on Saturday", 4 November 2012. Libya Herald. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  4. ^ a b "CORRECTION: no time change tomorrow", 24 October 2013. Libya Herald. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  5. ^ Libya Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  7. ^ Daylight saving time dates for Libya - Tripoli between 1980 and 1989. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  8. ^ Daylight saving time dates for Libya - Tripoli between 1990 and 1999. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  9. ^ Libya Changes Time Zone. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 28 July 2021.

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