[tz] South Sudan to change time zone?

Deborah Goldsmith goldsmit at apple.com
Tue Jan 19 23:50:05 UTC 2021


This article says the change will take place at “midnight, February 1”:

http://southsudan24news.com/south-sudan-change-its-time-zone-in-february-1-2021/

Deborah

> On Jan 19, 2021, at 1:48 PM, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis at 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-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
> 
>> 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-briefing/
> 
> 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
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