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Time in the Bahamas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ115152183 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bahamas observes Eastern Standard Time Zone (UTC−5) as standard time, and Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4) as daylight saving time (DST). DST is observed annually from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, the Bahamas is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Nassau. "BS" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.

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The public source identifies “Time in the Bahamas” as open-knowledge reference entry. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Time, Bahamas and Open-knowledge.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 67-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Time, Bahamas and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115152183. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Time in the Bahamas” 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.