Time in Senegal

Time in Senegal is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00).^[1][2] Senegal shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa.^[3] Senegal does not observe daylight saving time (DST).^[4]

Time in Senegal
Time zone	Greenwich Mean Time
Initials	GMT
UTC offset	UTC+00:00
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Dakar

History

Senegal first adopted UTC−01:00 on 1 January 1912.^[5]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Senegal is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Dakar. "SN" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Senegal directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:^[6]

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	Comments	UTC offset	DST
SN	+1440−01726	Africa/Dakar		+00:00	+00:00

See also

• Time in Africa
• List of time zones by country