Dear Brothers
This is dr. Yahia Abdalla, DG of National Telecommunication Cooperation, the telecommunication Regulator of Sudan
This is to confirm the following:
1- the change of time (to be GMT +2 instead of GMT+3 ) is going to be permanently starting from 1st November 2017
2- The governmental decision has been taken already, and no way to delay it.
3- the change will be through the entire country.
4- we already contacted the telecommunication operators in Sudan to prepare for the change.
hope these point answered your questions.... and we are ready to answer any more questions
Thank you for your cooperation
From: Matt Johnson [mailto:mj1856@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 11:47 PM
To: Paul Eggert; ahmed.atyya@ntc.gov.sd; Time Zone Mailing List
Cc: 'abdin'; 'yahia '; 'nadir'; 'abdelhafiz '
Subject: Re: [tz] [IANA #985615] Sudan Time Zone change
Dear Mr. Ahmed Atyya,
Thank you for updating us all about this change. Respectfully, please understand that two weeks notice is very little time for this change to be processed. Even if we move quickly, it is likely that those in the affected region, and those who interact with Sudan worldwide, will not get the change installed onto their computers and devices before the change goes into effect.
Can you please let us know if this change is already official and enacted - definitely to take effect on November 1, 2017 as you stated? Or is the effective date something the government is still working on? Is there an opportunity to request a delay?
For more about the sorts of things that happen with short-notice time zone changes, please read this article on my personal blog:
Regards,
Matt Johnson
Microsoft Corporation
From: tz-bounces@iana.org <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 12:47 PM
To: ahmed.atyya@ntc.gov.sd; Time Zone Mailing List
Cc: 'abdin'; 'yahia '; 'nadir'; 'abdelhafiz '
Subject: Re: [tz] [IANA #985615] Sudan Time Zone change
A proposed tzdb patch is attached, and I've installed it into the tzdb
repository on GitHub. Before releasing a new tzdb version, I would like
to improve on the patch by citing a public announcement by Sudan's
government or in a reliable news source.