United Arab Emirates Standard Time or UAE Standard Time is the time zone for the

UAE The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

. It is given by

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, being 4 hours ahead of

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/ UTC ( UTC+04:00) and is co-linear with neighbouring

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. The UAE does not change clocks for

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IANA time zone database

The

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contains one zone for the UAE in the file zone.tab, named "Asia/Dubai".

References

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