Time in Madagascar

Time in Madagascar is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00).[1][2] Madagascar does not observe daylight saving time.[2][3]

Time in Madagascar
Time zoneEast Africa Time
InitialsEAT
UTC offsetUTC+03:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Indian/Antananarivo

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Madagascar is given one zone in the file zone.tabIndian/Antananarivo, which is an alias to Africa/Nairobi. "MG" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Madagascar 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 offsetDST
MG−1855+04731Indian/Antananarivo +03:00 +03:00

See also

References

  1. Madagascar. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  2. Madagascar Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  3. Bradt, Hilary. (2011) Madagascar, 10th Ed.: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. London. p. 2. Retrieved 27 August 2021. ISBN 978-1-84162-341-2
  4. Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 27 August 2021.


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