title: Time in the Bahamas
text: # Time in the Bahamas
  
  The Bahamas observes Eastern Standard Time Zone (UTC−5) as standard time, and Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) as daylight saving time (DST). DST is observed annually from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.
  
  ## IANA time zone database
  
  In the IANA time zone database, the Bahamas is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Nassau. "BS" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for the Bahamas 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 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | BS | +2505−07721 | America/Nassau | | −05:00 | −04:00 |
  