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Time in South Sudan is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00). South Sudan has observed CAT since 1 February 2021. The country does not have an associated daylight saving time.

History

Upon the independence of South Sudan from Sudan on 9 July 2011, it observed East Africa Time (EAT; UTC+03:00). On 1 February 2021, South Sudan moved its time back one hour to the UTC offset +02:00, adopting Central Africa Time.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, South Sudan is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Juba. "SS" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for South Sudan directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:

See also

• Time in Sudan
• List of time zones by country
• List of UTC time offsets

References

1. South Sudan. "time difference: UTC+2". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 30 July 2021.
2. ^ South Sudan Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
3. ^ Rédaction Africanews (29 January 2021) South Sudan to switch new time zone in February. Africanews. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
4. ^ Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 30 July 2021.

External links

• Current time in South Sudan at Time.is
• Time in South Sudan at TimeAndDate.com

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