Time in Botswana
| Time in Botswana | |
|---|---|
| Time zone | Central Africa Time |
| Initials | CAT |
| UTC offset | UTC+02:00 |
| Adopted | 1903 |
| Daylight saving time | |
| DST not observed | |
| tz database | |
| Africa/Gaborone | |
Time in Botswana is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as Central Africa Time (CAT; UTC+02:00). Botswana has never observed daylight saving time. Botswana, as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, has observed CAT since 1903. In 1885 it used the South African Standard Time (SAST; UTC+01:30) as British Bechuanaland. Before adopting SAST and CAT, it observed local mean time (LMT; UTC+01:43).