SA expat chiming in. Just checked with my relatives back in SA - no current news internal to the country about the adoption of DST. On Tue, 30 Sept 2025 at 03:02, Tim Parenti via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sept 2025 at 21:44, Saras Sing <sarassing57@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah so I feel that South Africa has Daylight Saving Time every year from September to March/April etc which feels South African time now is wrong for now
Currently, our data shows South Africa observing year-round UTC+2 since 1944. The output from the following commands I just ran demonstrates our current understanding as reflected in our data:
$ export LC_ALL=C ; TZ=Etc/UTC date ; TZ=Africa/Johannesburg date Tue Sep 30 02:00:39 UTC 2025 Tue Sep 30 04:00:39 SAST 2025
It sounds like you're saying that clocks were instead moved forward in South Africa sometime a few weeks ago. That would mean that, at the time I'm sending this message (~02:00 UTC), it should presently be ~05:00 in South Africa instead of the ~04:00 our data currently calculates as above.
If that is what you mean, is this a newly-adopted practice? I'm afraid I'm not finding any information supporting this claim from a cursory news search. Without solid evidence of folks in South Africa actually observing such a time change en masse, we won't be able to help.
-- Tim Parenti
-- David Laing