Buchanan, Liberia · UTC+0
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Buchanan, Liberia, runs on Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) year-round. No daylight saving time is observed. IANA timezone: Africa/Monrovia.
Buchanan is Liberia’s second-largest city and its main iron ore export port, situated on the Atlantic coast about 120 kilometers southeast of Monrovia. It runs on Africa/Monrovia: UTC+0, year-round. No daylight saving time is observed.
The Africa/Monrovia timezone has an unusual history that makes it distinctive in the IANA database. Until 1972, Liberia used a non-standard offset of UTC-0:44:30, derived from the longitude of Monrovia. This was one of the last places on earth still using a local mean time offset rather than a standard whole-number or half-hour offset. In 1972, Liberia switched to UTC+0, the same decision most of the world had made decades earlier.
Iron ore and the port clock
Buchanan’s economy is dominated by the Bong Mines railroad that delivers iron ore from the interior to the port for export. The shipping schedule that governs when ore carriers enter and leave the harbor operates on a global maritime time framework. Ships use UTC as their reference; dock workers and rail operators use local Liberian time. The coordination between these two time frames is a daily feature of the port’s operations.
The Liberian-American connection
Liberia was founded in the 1820s by freed American slaves who returned to West Africa under the sponsorship of the American Colonization Society. The capital Monrovia was named after US President James Monroe. Buchanan was named after James Buchanan, who served as both US Secretary of State and later as president. This American naming convention reflects the settlement history.
The time difference between Buchanan and London is zero in winter, one hour behind when the UK observes BST.
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Questions about time in Buchanan
- What timezone is Buchanan in?
- Buchanan uses the IANA timezone
Africa/Monrovia. The UTC offset is always UTC+0 — this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Buchanan observe daylight saving time?
- No. Buchanan does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+0 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Buchanan?
- Buchanan is currently at UTC+0.
- What is the time difference between Buchanan and New York?
- Buchanan is currently 4 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Buchanan and London?
- Buchanan is currently 1 hour behind London.
- What is the time difference between Buchanan and Los Angeles?
- Buchanan is currently 7 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Buchanan and Tokyo?
- Buchanan is currently 9 hours behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Buchanan?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Buchanan is
Africa/Monrovia. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Africa/Monrovia' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Africa/Monrovia')`), or any IANA-compatible library.