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Time zone in Asia
The time in
Afghanistan
follows a single standard time offset of
UTC+04:30
(four and a half hours ahead of
Coordinated Universal Time
),
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even though the country spans almost two geographical
time zones
.
The official national standard time is called Afghanistan Time (AFT) internationally.
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Daylight saving time
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Afghanistan has never observed
daylight saving time
(also known as
DST
or
summer time
). Afghanistan uses only one time zone across the whole nation and all its territories.
IANA time zone database
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The territory of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is covered in the
IANA time zone database
. The
IANA
time zone identifier for Afghanistan is
Asia/Kabul
.
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For Afghanistan, the tz database time zones contains one zone in the file
zone.tab
.
Columns marked with * are from the file zone.tab of the database.
See also
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References
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