[tz] Namibia Time Zone

[Mark Plaatje]

Good Day

Kindly update your database to reflect that no Daylight Savings Time will be effected in 2018.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/namibia/windhoek?year=2018

https://www.namibian.com.na/65921/read/No-time-change-on-Sunday

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/03/c_137086167.htm

https://www.namibian.com.na/65942/read/Confusion-over-time-change


Regards,
Mark Plaatje
Manager : Fraud
Mobile Telecommunications Ltd
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[Jon Skeet]

The update was already made in the github repository last August
<https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/5b0152b68b85e2af1bc0f83113c5725d0cdcfb1a#diff-f4f52c274b8b0af7593e8d85f45ae7f1>,
so should be part of all releases since then.

Jon

Post by Mark Plaatje
Good Day
Kindly update your database to reflect that no Daylight Savings Time will
be effected in 2018.
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/namibia/windhoek?year=2018
https://www.namibian.com.na/65921/read/No-time-change-on-Sunday
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/03/c_137086167.htm
https://www.namibian.com.na/65942/read/Confusion-over-time-change
Regards,
Mark Plaatje
Manager : Fraud
Mobile Telecommunications Ltd
Tel: [phone]
http://www.mtc.com.na
<http://www.mtc.com.na/>
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[Paul Eggert]

Post by Mark Plaatje
Kindly update your database to reflect that no Daylight Savings Time
will be effected in 2018.

This was already done in tzdb release 2017c dated 2017-10-20. We suggest
that governments announce time zone changes a year in advance, to give
enough time for the relevant updates to make their way to users, and to
help avoid the sort of confusion that you observed in Namibia last
weekend. Please make this known to the officials in your government.

Here's more of the story, for those on the Time Zone Mailing List
unfamiliar with the Namibian situation. Although this autumn Namibia did
not change change its clocks and stayed at UT +02, on 2018-04-01 at
02:00 local time many cell phones and other electronic devices
automatically switched to UT +01 anyway. Namibia's leading cell service
MTC blamed the confusion on older (non-updated) Android devices that
were still using the equivalent of tzdb 2017b or earlier. MTC issued a
statement saying "the onus is on the device manufacturers to effect
these time zones on their end, following communications supplied to them
by the government about time changes." The snafus would have been
avoided had users updated to tzdb 2017c or later.

Unfortunately some of the devices will never be updated, as cell phone
manufacturers routinely drop support for phones that are still in use;
for example, Samsung no longer issues Android updates for the Galaxy S6
which debuted in 2015 and was sold until last year. Older devices will
therefore continue to contain out-of-date time zone data. You might try
contacting Samsung and the other manufacturers to try to fix this sort
of problem; unfortunately, I doubt whether you'll have much luck. In the
meantime you can continue to advise users of older Android phones to use
Johannesburg time.

References:

Changes to the tz database.
https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#changes

Johnson M. On the timing of time zone changes.
https://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/

Kahiurika N. Confusion over time change. The Namibian. 2018-04-03.
https://www.namibian.com.na/65942/read/Confusion-over-time-change

Fuller D. Samsun Galaxy S6 family officially hits end of life. Android
Headlines. 2018-04-02.
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/04/samsung-galaxy-s6-family-officially-hits-end-life.html