Date and time notation in Africa describes how date and time are counted all over the African continent and nations
East Africa
Time
For multi-lingual speakers in East Africa, the convention is to use the time system applicable to the language one happens to be speaking at the time. A person speaking of an early morning event in English would report that it happened at eight o'clock. However, in repeating the same facts in
Swahili
Swahili may refer to:
* Swahili language, a Bantu language official in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes
* Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa
* Swahili culture
Swahili culture is the culture of ...
, one would state that the events occurred at ''saa mbili'' ('two hours').
The
Ganda
Ganda may refer to:
Places
* Ganda, Angola
* Ganda, Tibet, China
* Ganda, the ancient Latin name of Ghent, a city in Belgium
Other uses
* Baganda or Ganda, a people of Uganda
** Luganda or Ganda language, a language of Uganda
* ''Ganda'' and "Ga ...
form, ''ssawa bbiri'', is equivalent to the Swahili in that it means literally 'two hours'.
[Chesswas, J. D. (1963) Essentials of Luganda. Oxford University Press]
See also
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Date and time representation by country
References
{{Africa topic, Date and time notation in
African society
Date and time representation