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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal">Dear Mr. Ahmed Atyya,</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-size:13.3333px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal">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.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span title="Search for suggestions" class="" style=""><font color="#212121"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">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?</span></font></span></div>
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<div style=""><font color="#212121"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">For more about the sorts of things that happen with short-notice time zone changes, please read this article on my personal blog:</span></font></div>
<div style=""><font color="#212121"><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><a href="https://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/" id="LPNoLP463951">https://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/</a><br>
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<div style=""><font color="#212121">Matt Johnson</font></div>
<div style=""><font color="#212121">Microsoft Corporation</font></div>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> tz-bounces@iana.org <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 17, 2017 12:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> ahmed.atyya@ntc.gov.sd; Time Zone Mailing List<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'abdin'; 'yahia '; 'nadir'; 'abdelhafiz '<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tz] [IANA #985615] Sudan Time Zone change</font>
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<div class="PlainText">A proposed tzdb patch is attached, and I've installed it into the tzdb
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repository on GitHub. Before releasing a new tzdb version, I would like <br>
to improve on the patch by citing a public announcement by Sudan's <br>
government or in a reliable news source.<br>
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