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Time zone names - Colombia Time
Retrieved April 24, 2010 Colombia does not observe
''Hora legal de Colombia'' at INM's website
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
has one time zone
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, Colombia Time (COT), which is located in the UTC−05:00 zone, 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time
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(UTC). Its standard time zone abbreviation is COT.Worldtimezone.coTime zone names - Colombia Time
Retrieved April 24, 2010 Colombia does not observe
daylight saving time
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, but used it for eleven months between May 1992 and April 1993.
The official national time is kept by the National Metrology Institute
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(INM Colombia) since 2011.
IANA time zone database
In theIANA time zone database
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Colombia has the following time zone:
*America/Bogota (CO)
See also
*Daylight saving time in Colombia
From February 1992 until March 1993, Colombia suffered rolling blackouts of up to 10 hours a day due to a particularly strong El Niño season, which dried the reservoirs in hydroelectric plants in a country deriving 70% of its energy output from hy ...
References
External links
''Hora legal de Colombia'' at INM's website
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