| Time in Guatemala | |
| Time Zone: | Central Standard Time |
| Initials: | CST |
| Offset: | UTC−6 |
| Dst: | no |
| Tz: | America/Guatemala |
Guatemala observes Central Standard Time (UTC−6) year-round.[1]
Guatemala observed daylight saving time in four separate periods, setting the official time one hour forward:
The clock change in 1973 was made in response to the 1970s energy crisis.
The clock change in 2006 was intended to reduce the consumers' spending on energy bills. While Guatemala observed five months of daylight saving time in 2006, according to the Spanish; Castilian: Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MEM), nationwide energy consumption was reduced by 36 million kilowatt-hours, equivalent to monetary savings of Q64 million. Guatemala intended to observe daylight saving time the following year, but the plan never came through.[2]
In the IANA time zone database, Guatemala is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Guatemala. "GT" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Guatemala directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[3]