The time inAfghanistan follows a single standard time offset ofUTC+04:30 (four and a half hours ahead ofCoordinated Universal Time),[1] even though the country spans almost two geographicaltime zones.
The official national standard time is called Afghanistan Time (AFT) internationally.[2][3][4]
Afghanistan has never observeddaylight saving time (also known asDST orsummer time). Afghanistan uses only one time zone across the whole nation and all its territories.
The territory of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is covered in theIANA time zone database. TheIANA time zone identifier for Afghanistan isAsia/Kabul.[5][6]
For Afghanistan, the tz database time zones contains one zone in the filezone.tab.
Columns marked with * are from the file zone.tab of the database.
| c.c.* | coordinates* | TZ* | comments* | Standard time | Summer time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF | +3431+06912 | Asia/Kabul | tUTC+04:30 | — |
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