WAST to GMT Converter

Offset: WAST is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa

Countries using this time zone: Namibia

Principal Cities: The largest city in the WAST time zone is Windhoek in Namibia, with about 268,132 people. Other major cities in this time zone include Rundu, Walvis Bay, Oshakati, Swakopmund.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in West Africa Summer Time (WAST) do not change for daylight saving time, so WAST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.

Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe

Countries using this time zone: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo

Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in United Kingdom, with about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra.

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.