Peru Time (PET) is the official time in
Peru
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, image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg
, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
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. It is always 5 hours behind
Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time or UTC is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about one second of mean solar time (such as UT1) at 0° longitude (at the IERS Reference Meridian as the currently use ...
(
UTC−05:00).
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Time zone names - Peru Time
Retrieved December 28, 2007 Peru has only one
time zone
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it ...
and does not observe
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 ...
. During the winter (summer in the Northern Hemisphere), Peruvian Time is the same as North American
Central Time, while during the summer (winter in the Northern Hemisphere) it is the same as
Eastern Time
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small por ...
.
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 ...
Peru has the following time zone:
*America/Lima (PE)
References
External links
GMT: Greenwich Mean Time - World Time / Time in every Time Zone{{Americas topic, Time in