SA expat chiming in. Just checked with my relatives back in SA - no current news internal to the country about the adoption of DST.
On Tue, 30 Sept 2025 at 03:02, Tim Parenti via tz <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >> -- David Laing
