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Time in Afghanistan

zone time

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ16878806 ↗
Source-derived summary

The time in Afghanistan follows a single standard time offset of UTC+04:30 (four and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), even though the country spans almost two geographical time zones.

The official national standard time is called Afghanistan Time (AFT) internationally.

Daylight saving time

Afghanistan has never observed daylight saving time. Afghanistan uses only one time zone across the whole nation and all its territories.

IANA time zone database

The territory of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is covered in the IANA time zone database. The IANA time zone identifier for Afghanistan is Asia/Kabul.

For Afghanistan, the tz database time zones contains one zone in the file zone.tab.

Columns marked with * are from the file zone.tab of the database.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Time in Afghanistan” as zone time. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 122-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Time, Afghanistan and zone can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as zone time. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16878806. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Time in Afghanistan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.