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beyarkay / eskom-calendar

Get your loadshedding schedule in your calendar and never be left in the dark! Open-source, up-to-date, and developer friendly.
https://eskomcalendar.co.za
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update city power schedules to 2023-11 rev 4 #494

Closed declan-fitzpatrick closed 7 months ago

declan-fitzpatrick commented 7 months ago

City Power has published a new revision that goes live on Wednesday 22nd.

Spot checks seem to be passing

beyarkay commented 7 months ago

Thanks! Looking through the commit now.

City Power has revised the loadshedding schedule that has been a source of public outcry in recent weeks^HN

I was totally oblivious that the new schedule was not getting much love. Was it really bad?

beyarkay commented 7 months ago

Everything looks good to me. Do you know when these updated schedules go into effect? I couldn't see anything on the city power website and the tweet just said "the new schedule which will be published on Wednesday".

declan-fitzpatrick commented 7 months ago

New schedule is live today, cross referencing the .pdf and City Power website.

Main issue is that they have ended up making blocks of 2 hours on, 2 hours off for stages 1-4. And this caused the 'outcry'. Unfortunately it seems this new change has not fixed it completely.

For example, today's stage 4 has blocks 6, 8, 13, and 15 are off from 04:00-06:30, 12:00-14:30, 16:00-18:30, and 20:00-22:30. However, it does seem to be more normal (2hrs morning, afternoon and evening) for the rest of the week. Likely another schedule update before the end of the year.

c4talyst commented 7 months ago

Takes effect midnight tonight -> 23/11/2023 at 00:00

declan-fitzpatrick commented 7 months ago

I'd trust the other guy who made a loadshedding tool over me... ^

Would also explain why schedules look more 'normal' for the rest of the week.

beyarkay commented 7 months ago

Okay cool, looks like I jumped the gun a bit with merging but everything's in order now. I'm looking at a better schedule management system which would automatically migrate from old schedules to new ones but that'll likely only come online in the new year.