Franceville, Gabon · UTC+1
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Franceville sits in southeastern Gabon, in the Haut-Ogooué province near the Republic of Congo border. It uses Africa/Libreville, West Africa Time, UTC+1, year-round. No daylight saving. At 1.6 degrees south, just below the equator, the daylight variation is minimal and DST would accomplish almost nothing.
manganese mines and primate research
Franceville is the center of Gabon’s manganese mining industry and home to the Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), a primate research center that has contributed significantly to Ebola and HIV research. The research center operates on a schedule that coordinates with international partners in Paris, Washington, and Geneva, all many time zones away.
The Trans-Gabon Railway connects Franceville to the coast at Libreville. The railway was completed in 1986 after decades of construction through some of the world’s most challenging equatorial forest terrain. Manganese ore loads onto trains at Franceville and arrives at the port of Owendo days later. The railway schedule is the primary time reference for the mining economy, and it runs on WAT year-round.
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Sources
- IANA Time Zone Database
- Direction Générale de la Météorologie du Gabon
- Barnes, James Franklin. Gabon: Beyond the Colonial Legacy. Westview Press, 1992.
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Questions about time in Franceville
- What timezone is Franceville in?
- Franceville uses the IANA timezone
Africa/Libreville. The UTC offset is always UTC+1 - this timezone does not observe daylight saving time. - Does Franceville observe daylight saving time?
- No. Franceville does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset remains UTC+1 all year round.
- What is the current UTC offset for Franceville?
- Franceville is currently at UTC+1.
- What is the time difference between Franceville and New York?
- Franceville is currently 5 hours ahead of New York.
- What is the time difference between Franceville and Los Angeles?
- Franceville is currently 8 hours ahead of Los Angeles.
- What is the time difference between Franceville and Tokyo?
- Franceville is currently 8 hours behind Tokyo.
- What is the IANA timezone name for Franceville?
- The IANA timezone database identifier for Franceville is
Africa/Libreville. Use this string in programming languages and APIs: JavaScript (`new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Africa/Libreville' })`), Python (`pytz.timezone('Africa/Libreville')`), or any IANA-compatible library.