[sdnog] Impact of new timezone in Sudan

[Patrick Okui]

On 28 Oct 2017, at 1:15 EAT, Manhal Mohammed wrote:

> So the ISPs  should stop these services for one hour "  before the 
> time change?  So there won't be a repetitive dates
> This will cause huge loss to ISPs !!

Well the actual time isn’t changing. It’s just that you’re 
changing timezone from UTC +3 (East African Time) to UTC +2 (Central 
African Time). I haven’t looked at the details to see if Sudan are 
creating their own timezone (i.e EAT with daylight savings? something 
else?).

If your applications, CDRs, etc are timezone aware then changing the 
timezone shouldn’t matter - the timestamps should have the timezone 
data in it.

For applications that are not timezone aware consider using UTC as the 
timezone for those timestamps.

Basically when the “clock is reset by an hour” do not change the 
time on your machines, just change the timezone you’re in and you 
should be fine.

Cheers.

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patrick