The Egyptian government announced in March 2023 the return of DST (Daylight Saving Time). Thus, on April, 27th 23:59:59 midnight, this announcement will have an impact on all NTP-synced networks.
To begin with, since all time calculations on NTP servers are done in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), a NTP server does not directly deal with time zones, but it does indirectly assist in maintaining accurate time across different time zones. By using NTP to synchronize the clocks of clients with an accurate UTC reference, it ensures that clients in different time zones have a consistent and accurate time base to work from. As you should never change time manually, unless there is no other way to do it, you need to let the NTP server handle this update to sync all clients within a network.
Fortunately, the TZ database is regularly updated. On March 28th, 2023 an update release (2023c
) that handles the Egyptian DST change, was published on the inte