Time in Eritrea

Time zone used in Eritrea

Time in Eritrea
Time zone	East Africa Time
Initials	EAT
UTC offset	UTC+03:00
Adopted	1993
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
Africa/Asmara

Time in Eritrea is in a single time zone, officially denoted as East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00).^[1]^[2] Eritrea has never observed daylight saving time.^[3] It has consistently observed EAT since its independence in 1993.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Eritrea is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Asmara. "ER" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Eritrea 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
ER	+1520+03853	Africa/Asmara		+03:00	+03:00

References

^ Eritrea. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 30 July 2021.
^ Eritrea Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
^ DST Changes in Eritrea. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 30 July 2021.