Quite a few sources, but they seem mostly to be syndicated from the same story tell that: "South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1 hour on February 1, 2021, the government spokesperson has said. According to the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan will change its offset from UTC+3 to UTC+2." from https://eyeradio.org/south-sudan-adopts-new-time-zone-makuei/ and a bit different here: https://radiotamazuj.org/en/news/article/south-sudan-to-change-time-zone-nex... Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com
On 2021-01-18 07:15, Steffen Thorsen wrote:
Quite a few sources, but they seem mostly to be syndicated from the same story tell that: "South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1 hour on February 1, 2021, the government spokesperson has said. According to the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan will change its offset from UTC+3 to UTC+2." from https://eyeradio.org/south-sudan-adopts-new-time-zone-makuei/
"South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1 hour on February 1, 2021, the government spokesperson has said. According to the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan will change its offset from UTC+3 to UTC+2. The change will be effective at 00:00 (midnight) on February 1, when clocks will be set back 1 hour to 23:00 (11:00 pm). Currently, South Sudan uses Eastern Africa Time (EAT). The change will put the East African country on Central Africa Time (CAT). After the change, South Sudan will observe the same local time as Egypt and Chad and neighboring Sudan."
and a bit different here: https://radiotamazuj.org/en/news/article/south-sudan-to-change-time-zone-nex...
Official announcement tomorrow at 10:00+0300 in Juba: https://www.facebook.com/www.motps.goss.org/ Ministry of ICT & Postal Services-Republic of South Sudan "The Minister of Information Communication Technology and Postal Services Michael Makuei Lueth, is inviting all the Media houses in Juba for a news conference on the adjustment of time zone and other related issues on Tuesday 19th January 2021. Venue: Ministry's meeting hall at 10:00am" Guess midnight 2021 January 31 Sunday/February 1 as it is a Sunday night? # South Sudan # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Juba 2:06:28 - LMT 1931 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00 - 3:00 - EAT + 3:00 - EAT 2021 Feb 01 00:00 + 2:00 - CAT -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]
Does anyone have the official announcement? I don’t have a Facebook account so I had difficulty looking at the site. Thanks, Deborah
On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:25 AM, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2021-01-18 07:15, Steffen Thorsen wrote:
Quite a few sources, but they seem mostly to be syndicated from the same story tell that: "South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1 hour on February 1, 2021, the government spokesperson has said. According to the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan will change its offset from UTC+3 to UTC+2." from https://eyeradio.org/south-sudan-adopts-new-time-zone-makuei/
"South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1 hour on February 1, 2021, the government spokesperson has said. According to the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan will change its offset from UTC+3 to UTC+2. The change will be effective at 00:00 (midnight) on February 1, when clocks will be set back 1 hour to 23:00 (11:00 pm). Currently, South Sudan uses Eastern Africa Time (EAT). The change will put the East African country on Central Africa Time (CAT). After the change, South Sudan will observe the same local time as Egypt and Chad and neighboring Sudan."
and a bit different here: https://radiotamazuj.org/en/news/article/south-sudan-to-change-time-zone-nex...
Official announcement tomorrow at 10:00+0300 in Juba:
https://www.facebook.com/www.motps.goss.org/ Ministry of ICT & Postal Services-Republic of South Sudan "The Minister of Information Communication Technology and Postal Services Michael Makuei Lueth, is inviting all the Media houses in Juba for a news conference on the adjustment of time zone and other related issues on Tuesday 19th January 2021. Venue: Ministry's meeting hall at 10:00am"
Guess midnight 2021 January 31 Sunday/February 1 as it is a Sunday night?
# South Sudan # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Juba 2:06:28 - LMT 1931 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00 - 3:00 - EAT + 3:00 - EAT 2021 Feb 01 00:00 + 2:00 - CAT
-- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]
On 2021-01-19 13:53, Deborah Goldsmith via tz wrote:
On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:25 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2021-01-18 07:15, Steffen Thorsen wrote:
Quite a few sources, but they seem mostly to be syndicated from the same story tell that: "South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1 hour on February 1, 2021, the government spokesperson has said. According to the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan will change its offset from UTC+3 to UTC+2." from https://eyeradio.org/south-sudan-adopts-new-time-zone-makuei/
"South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1 hour on February 1, 2021, the government spokesperson has said. According to the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan will change its offset from UTC+3 to UTC+2. The change will be effective at 00:00 (midnight) on February 1, when clocks will be set back 1 hour to 23:00 (11:00 pm). Currently, South Sudan uses Eastern Africa Time (EAT). The change will put the East African country on Central Africa Time (CAT). After the change, South Sudan will observe the same local time as Egypt and Chad and neighboring Sudan."
and a bit different here: https://radiotamazuj.org/en/news/article/south-sudan-to-change-time-zone-nex...
Official announcement tomorrow at 10:00+0300 in Juba:
https://www.facebook.com/www.motps.goss.org/ Ministry of ICT & Postal Services-Republic of South Sudan "The Minister of Information Communication Technology and Postal Services Michael Makuei Lueth, is inviting all the Media houses in Juba for a news conference on the adjustment of time zone and other related issues on Tuesday 19th January 2021. Venue: Ministry's meeting hall at 10:00am"
Guess midnight 2021 January 31 Sunday/February 1 as it is a Sunday night?
# South Sudan # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Juba 2:06:28 - LMT 1931 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00 - 3:00 - EAT + 3:00 - EAT 2021 Feb 01 00:00 + 2:00 - CAT
Does anyone have the official announcement? I don’t have a Facebook account so I had difficulty looking at the site. Neither do I, click "Not Now", can only browse, but the only news update I found is self-explanatory:
https://eyeradio.org/makuei-throws-out-covidiotic-reporters-from-a-press-bri... about the right ToD, but nothing more substantive about the time change as yet. There is more coverage on time and date sites than the media via search engines: perhaps there will be more coverage in tomorrow's media. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]
This article says the change will take place at “midnight, February 1”: http://southsudan24news.com/south-sudan-change-its-time-zone-in-february-1-2... Deborah
On Jan 19, 2021, at 1:48 PM, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2021-01-19 13:53, Deborah Goldsmith via tz wrote:
On Jan 18, 2021, at 11:25 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2021-01-18 07:15, Steffen Thorsen wrote:
Quite a few sources, but they seem mostly to be syndicated from the same story tell that: "South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1 hour on February 1, 2021, the government spokesperson has said. According to the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan will change its offset from UTC+3 to UTC+2." from https://eyeradio.org/south-sudan-adopts-new-time-zone-makuei/
"South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1 hour on February 1, 2021, the government spokesperson has said. According to the minister of information, Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan will change its offset from UTC+3 to UTC+2. The change will be effective at 00:00 (midnight) on February 1, when clocks will be set back 1 hour to 23:00 (11:00 pm). Currently, South Sudan uses Eastern Africa Time (EAT). The change will put the East African country on Central Africa Time (CAT). After the change, South Sudan will observe the same local time as Egypt and Chad and neighboring Sudan."
and a bit different here: https://radiotamazuj.org/en/news/article/south-sudan-to-change-time-zone-nex...
Official announcement tomorrow at 10:00+0300 in Juba:
https://www.facebook.com/www.motps.goss.org/ Ministry of ICT & Postal Services-Republic of South Sudan "The Minister of Information Communication Technology and Postal Services Michael Makuei Lueth, is inviting all the Media houses in Juba for a news conference on the adjustment of time zone and other related issues on Tuesday 19th January 2021. Venue: Ministry's meeting hall at 10:00am"
Guess midnight 2021 January 31 Sunday/February 1 as it is a Sunday night?
# South Sudan # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Juba 2:06:28 - LMT 1931 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00 - 3:00 - EAT + 3:00 - EAT 2021 Feb 01 00:00 + 2:00 - CAT
Does anyone have the official announcement? I don’t have a Facebook account so I had difficulty looking at the site. Neither do I, click "Not Now", can only browse, but the only news update I found is self-explanatory:
https://eyeradio.org/makuei-throws-out-covidiotic-reporters-from-a-press-bri...
about the right ToD, but nothing more substantive about the time change as yet.
There is more coverage on time and date sites than the media via search engines: perhaps there will be more coverage in tomorrow's media.
-- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]
On 1/19/21 3:50 PM, Deborah Goldsmith via tz wrote:
This article says the change will take place at “midnight, February 1”:
http://southsudan24news.com/south-sudan-change-its-time-zone-in-february-1-2...
The version I now see says, "The change will occur at 00:00 (midnight) on February 1, when clocks will be set back 1 hour to 23:00 (11:00 pm)." This is a bit confusing, because if the change is indeed at 00:00 on February 1, the quoted text should have ended in "23:00 (11:00 pm) the previous day" to avoid confusion. Perhaps the official announcement (if one is made and someone can provide it) will be less confusing.
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 19:04, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
The version I now see says, "The change will occur at 00:00 (midnight) on February 1, when clocks will be set back 1 hour to 23:00 (11:00 pm)." This is a bit confusing, because if the change is indeed at 00:00 on February 1, the quoted text should have ended in "23:00 (11:00 pm) the previous day" to avoid confusion.
The Radio Tamazuj article Steffan shared quotes government spokesperson and information minister Michael Makuei Lueth saying "our official time zone should be 2 hours from the Greenwich meantime and that is from the 1st of February 2021", which I take along with the midnight timing to effectively mean a transition from 24:00 +03 to 23:00 +02 on 31 January, which is in line with Paul's proposed patch. https://radiotamazuj.org/en/news/article/south-sudan-to-change-time-zone-nex... Perhaps the official announcement (if one is made and someone can
provide it) will be less confusing.
My searches for official government websites for South Sudan yielded http://www.goss-online.org/ but that site has no news or releases since early 2014. Its homepage says it's been archived, and points instead to http://www.goss.org/ but that site appears to be misconfigured and, searching through the Internet Archive, appears to have been for some time: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.goss.org So it seems media reports may be the more likely source for us, but looking at the homepages of the websites already cited, it doesn't seem like there's anything substantive that came out of the press conference at 10:00 +03 Tuesday (about 19 hours ago). Not that it's too helpful, but FWIW, a handful of people seem to have mentioned it on Twitter in the past few days without referring to any particular article or potentially downstream source. -- Tim Parenti
On 2021-01-19 17:04, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 1/19/21 3:50 PM, Deborah Goldsmith via tz wrote:
This article says the change will take place at “midnight, February 1”:
http://southsudan24news.com/south-sudan-change-its-time-zone-in-february-1-2...
The version I now see says, "The change will occur at 00:00 (midnight) on February 1, when clocks will be set back 1 hour to 23:00 (11:00 pm)." This is a bit confusing, because if the change is indeed at 00:00 on February 1, the quoted text should have ended in "23:00 (11:00 pm) the previous day" to avoid confusion.
Perhaps the official announcement (if one is made and someone can provide it) will be less confusing.
That article is datelined 4 days ago on January 15, and contains another quotation of the original report on the decision made at the cabinet meeting. It is the latest article on that site, which seems to repost articles from other sites occasionally, and is based in Omaha, NE, US, from its Contact page, and the same is true for other so called South Sudan news sites. If nothing further is posted on January 20th Wednesday reporting on the "covidiotic" meeting of January 19th Tuesday, in which the actual business reported appeared to be: https://www.sudanspost.com/makuei-says-state-govts-national-legislature-to-b... someone with a Facebook account and Messenger could reach out via https://www.facebook.com/www.motps.goss.org/ "Contact Ministry of ICT & Postal Services-Republic of South Sudan on Messenger" or "Send Message" links to "@www.motps.goss.org". Or just go with the guess! -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]
Thanks for the heads-up. It would be nice to get something more official; in the meantime I installed the attached proposed patch. I suppose we'll need a new tzdb release soon, though with such little notice it'll be hard to get this change out to users in time.
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