[tz] South Sudan to change time zone?

[Deborah Goldsmith]

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 at 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-next-month
> 
> 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
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