Time in Zimbabwe

Time in Zimbabwe is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00).^[1][2] Zimbabwe has never observed daylight saving time.^[1] Zimbabwe, as Southern Rhodesia, has observed CAT since 1903.^[3]

Time in Zimbabwe
Time zone	Central Africa Time
Initials	CAT
UTC offset	UTC+02:00
Adopted	1903 (as Southern Rhodesia)
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Harare

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Zimbabwe is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Harare. "ZW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Zimbabwe directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:^[4]

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	Comments	UTC offset	DST
ZW	−1750+03103	Africa/Harare		+02:00	+02:00

See also

• List of time zones by country
• List of UTC time offsets