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Time in Guatemala
Time zoneCentral Standard Time
InitialsCST
UTC offsetUTC−6
Daylight saving time
DST not observed
tz database
America/Guatemala

Guatemala observes Central Standard Time (UTC−6) year-round.[1]

Daylight saving time[edit]

Guatemala observed daylight saving time in four separate periods, setting the official time one hour forward:

The clock change in 1973 was made in response to the 1970s energy crisis.

The clock change in 2006 was intended to reduce the consumers' spending on energy bills. While Guatemala observed five months of daylight saving time in 2006, according to the Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MEM), nationwide energy consumption was reduced by 36 million kilowatt-hours, equivalent to monetary savings of Q64 million. Guatemala intended to observe daylight saving time the following year, but the plan never came through.[2]

IANA time zone database[edit]

In the IANA time zone database, Guatemala is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Guatemala. "GT" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Guatemala directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[3]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
GT +1438−09031 America/Guatemala −06:00 −06:00

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Guatemala". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  • ^ "Se adelanta la hora en el territorio nacional en 2006" (in Spanish). 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  • ^ "North America". tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
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