Time in Mauritania
Time zoneGreenwich Mean Time
InitialsGMT
UTC offsetUTC±00:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Nouakchott

Time in Mauritania is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00).[1][2] Mauritania shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa.[3] Mauritania does not observe daylight saving time (DST).[4]

IANA time zone database

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

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
MR +1806−01557 Africa/Nouakchott +00:00 +00:00

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mauritania". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 10 August 2022. time difference: UTC 0
  2. ^ "Mauritania time zone". GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. ^ Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Mauritania Time Zone". TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Africa". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 10 August 2022.

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