Time in Liberia is given by a single time zone, denoted as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00).Liberia at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 26 July 2021. "time difference: UTC 0".Liberia time zone. GreenwichMeanTime.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021. Liberia shares this time zone with several other countries, including fourteen in western Africa where it was formerly known as Western Sahara Standard Time (WSST).Western European Time. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021. Liberia has never observed daylight saving time (DST).Liberia Time Zone. TimeTemperature.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
History Liberia first adopted the UTC offset -0:43:08 (called Liberia Mean Time; LMT) as it was the geographical central meridian on which the capital Monrovia was located. The time zone was renamed to Monrovia Mean Time in 1882. In March 1919, the offset was redefined forward by 1 minute and 22 seconds to -0:44:30.United States Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office (1 January 1968) The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1970. (1st edition). United States Government Publishing Office. p. 264. Retrieved 26 July 2021.Shanks, Thomas G. (1 July 1999) The International Atlas: World Longitudes & Latitudes, Time Changes and Time Zones. (5th edition). ACS Publications. Retrieved 26 July 2021. Liberia adopted Greenwich Mean Time (GMT; UTC+00:00) on 7 January 1972.Tolbert, William R. (1972). Republic of Liberia presidential papers: documents, diary and record of activities of the Chief Executive, July 23, 1971-July 31, 1972. Monrovia, R.L. [i.e. Republic of Liberia]: Executive Mansion. p. 330. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
IANA time zone database In the IANA time zone database, Liberia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Monrovia. "LR" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Liberia directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:Africa at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
See also List of time zones by country List of UTC time offsets
References
External links Current time in Liberia at Time.is Time in Liberia at TimeAndDate.com