Time in Zambia
# Time in Zambia

Time in Zambia is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00). Zambia has never observed daylight saving time. Zambia, as North-Eastern Rhodesia, has observed CAT since 1903.

## IANA time zone database

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

| c.c.* | coordinates* | TZ* | Comments | UTC offset | DST |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ZM | −1525+02817 | Africa/Lusaka | | +02:00 | +02:00 |
