title: Time in Zimbabwe
text: # Time in Zimbabwe
  
  Time in Zimbabwe is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00). Zimbabwe has never observed daylight saving time. Zimbabwe, as Southern Rhodesia, has observed CAT since 1903.
  
  ## IANA time zone database
  
  In the IANA time zone database, Zimbabwe is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Harare. "ZW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Zimbabwe 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 |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | ZW | −1750+03103 | Africa/Harare | | +02:00 | +02:00 |
  