They might have few computers, but report claims there are millions of smartphone in the country, although they're connected to an intranet instead of internet. Not sure how those phones are going to receive updates. And as the changes is clearly a political one, we should probably be grateful that they aren't going to implement the change immediately nor on the next day after the announcement 在 2018年5月1日週二 03:51，Matt Johnson <mj1856@hotmail.com> 寫道：
Sigh.... I guess my blog post ( https://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/) wasn't fruitful in this regard. Perhaps because there are fewer computer users in North Korea?
-Matt
------------------------------ *From:* tz <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Paul Eggert < eggert@cs.ucla.edu> *Sent:* Sunday, April 29, 2018 7:34 PM *To:* Tim Parenti *Cc:* Time Zone Mailing List; Kang Seonghoon *Subject:* Re: [tz] Pyongyang Time transition plan announced
Tim Parenti wrote:
It appears to be the front page story at the top in the right-most column:
Thanks. In the absence of further info, let's assume the transition will be at 00:00 local time on May 5, and that the clocks will jump from 00:00 to 00:30. Proposed patch attached. If we find out later that this assumption is wrong, we'll need to update tzdb accordingly.
We'll need a new tzdb release shortly, of course.