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Time in Colombia

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Colombia has one time zone, Colombia Time (COT), which is located in the UTC−05:00 zone, 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Its standard time zone abbreviation is COT.^[1]

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Thumb — A map of the world's timezones with Colombia Time (UTC -5) highlighted

Prior to Colombia introducing a nationwide time zone in 1914, Bogotá mean time (UTC−04:56:16) was used.

Colombia does not observe daylight saving time, but used it for eleven months between May 1992 and April 1993.

The official national time is kept by the National Metrology Institute (INM Colombia) since 2011.

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IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database Colombia has the following time zone:

America/Bogota (CO)

See also

Daylight saving time in Colombia

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