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Time zone
West Africa Time
, or
WAT
, is a
time zone
used in west-central
Africa
.
[1]
West Africa Time is one hour ahead of
Coordinated Universal Time
(
UTC+01:00
), which aligns it with
Central European Time
(CET) during winter, and
Western European Summer Time
(WEST) /
British Summer Time
(BST) during summer.
As most of this time zone is in the
tropical
region, there is little change in day length throughout the year and therefore
daylight saving time
is not observed.
West Africa Time is the time zone for the following countries:
Countries west of
Benin
(except Morocco and Western Sahara) are in the
UTC±0
time zone.
Civil time
in most of those countries is defined with reference to
Greenwich Mean Time
[
citation needed
]
(now an alias for UTC±0, rather than an independent reference).
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