According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September this year: Standard time +2 hours DST time +3 hours Change from standard to DST: 2006-03-30T22:00 2007-03-31T22:00 2008-03-31T22:00 Change from DST to standard: 2006-09-21T21:00 2007-09-30T21:00 2008-09-30T21:00 This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt. Stephen