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South Africa Standard Time

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The South African National Time Standard, or 'SA Time' Master Clock, is maintained at the Time and Frequency Laboratory of the National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA) at Pretoria and is distributed publicly by an
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differ, however. Everywhere on land west of 22°30′ E effectively experiences year-round daylight saving time because of its location in true
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and discussed difficulty of working a railway system, in the absence of a uniform time system. The governments of the
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Official Year Book of the Union of South Africa and of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland. No. 10
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but still being in South African Standard Time. Sunrise and sunset are thus relatively late in
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To illustrate, daylight hours for South Africa's western and easternmost major cities:
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South African Standard Time is defined as "Coordinated Universal Time plus two hours" (
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Before 8 February 1892, there was no uniformity of time in South Africa and
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is not observed in either time zone. Solar noon in this time zone occurs at
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was in use at the various towns. In 1892, a railway conference was held in
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which was defined as mean time 22.5° east of Greenwich. On 1 March 1903
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South Africa observed a daylight saving time of GMT+03:00 (
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are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively.
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Index

Africa/Johannesburg
Static application security testing
Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology

Cape Verde Time
UTC−1
Greenwich Mean Time
UTC
Central European Time
West Africa Time
UTC+1
Central Africa Time
Eastern European Time
Egypt Standard Time
South African Standard Time
UTC+2
East Africa Time
UTC+3
Mauritius Time
Seychelles Time
UTC+4

Cape Verde
Canary Islands

Mauritius
Seychelles
time zone
South Africa
Eswatini

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