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{{short description|Time zone}}
'''East Africa Time''', or '''EAT''', is a [[Time zone|time zone]] used in eastern [[Earth:Africa|Africa]]. The time zone is three hours ahead of UTC ([[UTC+03:00|00]]), which is the same as [[Moscow Time]], Arabia Standard Time, [[Further-eastern European Time]] and [[Eastern European Summer Time]].<ref name="world-time-zones">{{cite web|title=EAT Time|url=http://www.world-time-zones.org/zones/east-africa-time.htm|publisher=World Time Zones.Org|access-date=29 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210073819/http://www.world-time-zones.org/zones/east-africa-time.htm|archive-date=10 February 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

As this time zone is predominantly in the [[Astronomy:Equator|equator]]ial region, there is no significant change in day length throughout the year and so daylight saving time is not observed.<ref name="world-time-zones" />

East Africa Time is observed by the following countries:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eastern Africa Time – EAT Time Zone |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/eat |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=www.timeanddate.com |language=en}}</ref><!-- Contradictory, partially with the map.  -->
*{{Flag|Comoros}}
*{{Flag|Djibouti}}
*{{Flag|Eritrea}}
*{{Flag|Ethiopia}}
*{{Flag|Kenya}}
*{{Flag|Madagascar}}
*{{Flag|Somalia}}
*{{Flag|Tanzania}}
*{{Flag|Uganda}}
*{{Flag|Sudan}}
*{{Flag|South Sudan}}

==See also==
*[[Moscow Time]], an equivalent time zone covering [[Further-eastern European Time|Belarus]], [[Place:Turkey|Turkey]] and most of European Russia, also at [[UTC+03:00|00]]
*Arabia Standard Time, an equivalent time zone covering Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, also at [[UTC+03:00|00]]
*[[Eastern European Summer Time]], an equivalent time zone covering [[Earth:Europe|European]] and [[Place:Middle East|Middle Eastern]] countries during daylight saving, also at [[UTC+03:00|00]]
*Israel Summer Time, an equivalent time zone covering the State of Israel during daylight saving, also at [[UTC+03:00|00]]
*[[Further-eastern European Time]], an equivalent time zone covering extended Eastern [[Earth:Europe|European]] countries, also at [[UTC+03:00|00]]

==References==
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