What time zone is UGANDA in?

An excellent question I was asked yesterday which prompted me to gather some brief facts to share with you about UGANDA:

• Uganda is in the Eastern African Time zone which is eight hours ahead of the east coast US and three hours ahead of Dublin. It is also five hours behind Hong Kong
• UGANDA only gained it's indepdance from the United Kingdon in 1962 - up the Ra
• The population of UGANDA is 32 million or 7.2 times the population of Ireland
• Capital is Kampala
• Currency is the Ugandan schilling
• 72% of the population of the country lives just a bit above the international poverty line of US $5.00 a day