[tz] South Sudan to change time zone?

[Brian Inglis]

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.

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