Time in Benin is given by a single time zone, officially denoted as West Africa Time (WAT; ). Benin adopted WAT on 1 January 1912 as French Dahomey, and has never observed daylight saving time.
In the IANA time zone database, Benin is given one zone in the file zone.tab â Africa/Porto-Novo. "" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Benin directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: