Time in Colombia
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Colombia
has one time zone
, Colombia Time (COT), which is located in the UTC-05:00 zone, 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time
(UTC). Its standard time zone abbreviation is
.
In the tz-database Colombia has the following time zone:
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
has one time zone
Time zone
A time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates , different places on the Earth need to have different clock times...
, Colombia Time (COT), which is located in the UTC-05:00 zone, 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. Computer servers, online services and other entities that rely on having a universally accepted time use UTC for that purpose...
(UTC). Its standard time zone abbreviation is
COT. Colombia doesn't observe daylight saving timeDaylight saving time
Daylight saving time —also summer time in several countries including in British English and European official terminology —is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less...
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In the tz-database Colombia has the following time zone:
- America/Bogota (CO)