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Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 has one time zone
Time zone

A time zone is a region of the earth that has uniform standard time, usually referred to as the local time. By convention, time zones compute their local time as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time ....
, Peru Time (PET), which is located in the UTC-5
UTC-5

UTC-5 is the time offset used in the North American Eastern Time Zone during standard time and in the North American Central Time Zone during Daylight Saving Time ....
 zone, 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time is a time standard based on International Atomic Time with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation....
 (UTC). Its standard time zone abbreviation is PET. Peru does not observe daylight saving time
Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn....
.

In the tz-database Peru has the following time zone:






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Peru
Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
 has one time zone
Time zone

A time zone is a region of the earth that has uniform standard time, usually referred to as the local time. By convention, time zones compute their local time as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time ....
, Peru Time (PET), which is located in the UTC-5
UTC-5

UTC-5 is the time offset used in the North American Eastern Time Zone during standard time and in the North American Central Time Zone during Daylight Saving Time ....
 zone, 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time is a time standard based on International Atomic Time with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation....
 (UTC). Its standard time zone abbreviation is PET. Peru does not observe daylight saving time
Daylight saving time

Daylight saving time is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn....
.

In the tz-database Peru has the following time zone:
  • America/Lima (PE)


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