Time in Liberia is given by a single
time zone
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, Commerce, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between Country, countries and their Administrative division, subdivisions instead of ...
, denoted as
Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the Local mean time, mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, i ...
(GMT;
UTC±00:00).
Liberia
Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...
shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa where it was formerly known as
Western Sahara Standard Time (WSST). Liberia has never observed
daylight saving time
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time or simply daylight time (United States, Canada, and Australia), and summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks (typicall ...
(DST).
History
Liberia first adopted the
UTC offset -0:43:08 (called Liberia Mean Time; LMT) as it was the
geographical central meridian on which the capital
Monrovia
Monrovia () is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2008 census had 1,010,970 residents, home to 29% of Liberia’s total population. As the ...
was located.
The time zone was renamed to Monrovia Mean Time in 1882.
In March 1919, the offset was redefined forward by 1 minute and 22 seconds to
-0:44:30. Liberia adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC±00:00) on 7 January 1972.
[Tolbert, William R. (1972). ''Republic of Liberia presidential papers: documents, diary and record of activities of the Chief Executive, July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972. Monrovia, R.L. .e. Republic of Liberia Executive Mansion''. p. 330. Retrieved 26 July 2021.]
IANA time zone database
In the
IANA time zone database
The tz database is a collaborative compilation of information about the world's time zones, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems. Paul Eggert is its current editor and maintainer, with the organizational backi ...
, Liberia is given one zone in the file
zone.tab
This is a list of time zones from release of the tz database.
Legend Type
* Canonical - The primary, preferred zone name.
* Link - An alternative name (alias) which links to a canonical zone.
* Link - A standard Link (as above). The dagger symb ...
–
Africa/Monrovia. "
LR" refers to the country's
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Liberia directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:
[Africa](_blank)
at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Interne ...
(IANA). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
See also
*
List of time zones by country
This is a list representing time zones by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of dependent territories (except Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas terr ...
*
List of UTC time offsets
This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during stan ...
References
External links
Current time in Liberiaat ''Time.is''
Time in Liberiaat ''TimeAndDate.com''
{{Africa topic, Time in
Time in Liberia