Apparently, Sudan started using DST on January 15th. Sudan is not exactly over-exposed when it comes to Internet web sites, so it is a bit difficult to find any updated newspapers or other media there with more details. I was informed of this by Michael De Beukelaer-Dossche <michaeldbd@yahoo.com> which is in Khartoum at the moment: "I asked around here in Sudan, and it seems that the government just added one hour to stimulate the economy. This happened the 15 of january this year, and will normally stay like this forever (exept when the government falls or changes his mind again). Inshallah as they say here in Sudan. Hope you can use this information on your website" Regards, Steffen -- Steffen Thorsen <steffen@thorsen.priv.no> http://www.timeanddate.com/
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:00:13 +0100 (CET) From: Steffen Thorsen <straen@thorsen.priv.no> Apparently, Sudan started using DST on January 15th. I was informed of this by Michael De Beukelaer-Dossche <michaeldbd@yahoo.com> which is in Khartoum at the moment. Thanks very much for this info; I'll include it in the next proposed patch to the public-domain tz data. Sudan is not exactly over-exposed when it comes to Internet web sites, That's an understatement. As far as I can tell, Sudan has zero accessible web sites right now. Two domains are registered under .sd (gnpoc.com.sd and sudatel.net.sd), but neither is reachable from Los Angeles right now -- requests to those domains get into a routing loop when they hit Abu Dhabi. I checked archives of Africa News Online and the Johannesburg Daily Mail & Guardian for news about the time zone change, but came up empty. For lack of better information, I'll assume that the transition occurred at 00:00 local time on January 15, and that it's a permanent switch to UTC+3 (EAT).
participants (2)
-
Paul Eggert -
Steffen Thorsen