Yeah so I feel that South Africa has Daylight Saving Time every year from September to March/April etc which feels South African time now is wrong for now
On Tue, 30 Sept 2025, 03:36 Tim Parenti, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Sept 2025 at 21:00, Saras Sing <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes indeed South Africa was wrong in this way for Daylight Saving Time >> but will you able to fix the Daylight Saving Time for South Africa? >> > > Are you able to clarify further how you feel our data for South Africa may > be wrong (for which years, for which dates, etc.) and, again, provide some > reputable sources supporting that claim? Absent that, given the high > confidence we have in this case in our existing data, it would at the very > least be extremely helpful to have specific examples of how our data > handles specific conversions in ways that differ from what you expect, e.g.: > > $ LC_ALL=C TZ=Africa/Johannesburg date -d "1943-09-30 08:00:00 UTC" > Thu Sep 30 11:00:00 SAST 1943 > $ LC_ALL=C TZ=Africa/Johannesburg date -d "2025-09-30 08:00:00 UTC" > Tue Sep 30 10:00:00 SAST 2025 > > A better understanding of what specifically you think is wrong will help > us determine whether the supposed error is in our data or somewhere in how > you or your toolchain may be interpreting it. > > -- > Tim Parenti > >>
