On Mon, 29 Sept 2025 at 21:44, Saras Sing <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Currently, our data shows South Africa observing year-round UTC+2 since 1944. The output from the following commands I just ran demonstrates our current understanding as reflected in our data: $ export LC_ALL=C ; TZ=Etc/UTC date ; TZ=Africa/Johannesburg date Tue Sep 30 02:00:39 UTC 2025 Tue Sep 30 04:00:39 SAST 2025 It sounds like you're saying that clocks were instead moved forward in South Africa sometime a few weeks ago. That would mean that, at the time I'm sending this message (~02:00 UTC), it should presently be ~05:00 in South Africa instead of the ~04:00 our data currently calculates as above. If that is what you mean, is this a newly-adopted practice? I'm afraid I'm not finding any information supporting this claim from a cursory news search. Without solid evidence of folks in South Africa actually observing such a time change en masse, we won't be able to help. -- Tim Parenti >
