West Africa Time
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West Africa Time, or WAT, is a time zone used in western and west-central Africa (though not in countries west of Benin, which instead use GMT). The zone is one hour ahead of UTC (UTC+1), which makes it the same as Central European Time.
As most of this time zone is in the equatorial region there is no significant change in day length throughout the year, so no daylight savings are observed. The exception to this is Namibia, which moves to West Africa Summer Time (UTC+2) in the summer months, September to April.
West Africa Time is used by the following countries:
- Image:Flag of Angola.svg Angola
- Image:Flag of Benin.svg Benin
- Image:Flag of Chad.svg Chad
- Image:Flag of Cameroon.svg Cameroon
- Image:Flag of the Central African Republic.svg Central African Republic
- Image:Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg Democratic Republic of the Congo (western)
- Image:Flag of Equatorial Guinea.svg Equatorial Guinea
- Image:Flag of Gabon.svg Gabon
- Image:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia
- Image:Flag of Niger.svg Niger
- Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Nigeria
- Image:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg Republic of the Congo
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