Time in Sierra Leone | |
---|---|
Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time |
Initials | GMT |
UTC offset | UTC±00:00 |
Adopted | 1939 |
Daylight saving time | |
DST not observed | |
tz database | |
Africa/Freetown |
Time in Sierra Leone is given by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00).[1] Sierra Leone has never observed daylight saving time.[2] Sierra Leone adopted its current time zone in 1939,[3] switching from UTC−01:00.[4]
In the IANA time zone database, Sierra Leone is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Freetown. "SL" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Sierra Leone 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 |
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SL | +0830−01315 | Africa/Freetown | +00:00 | +00:00 |