daylight saving in Egypt

[Steffen Thorsen]

Hello,

The official information regarding the (expected) date change has been 
published:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Miscellaneous/000002/0207000000000000001580.htm

which says:
 > "Egypt will start its wintertime as of Friday, September 7," Cabinet
 > Spokesman Magdi Radi announced Wednesday 22/8/2007. This means that
 > Egyptians will set their clocks one hour backward.
 >
 > Egypt operates Daylight-Saving Time between the last Friday in April
 > and the last Thursday in September when the clocks are a 3 hours 
ahead > of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
 >
 > The date will change a little bit this year because of Ramadan, the
 > Holy Muslims fasting month due to start Thursday, September 13.

The current tzdata2007g.tar.gz does not have this, but Paul Eggert's 
latest patch has it - so it is probably time to make a new release by 
Friday.

Best regards,
Steffen / timeanddate.com




Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote:
> I don't have much update on the supposed early Egypt DST ending, but I found
> the following two web pages that agree with Dirk Losch and the airline he
> refers to (or rather doesn't refer to).
> 
> One is http://www.nentjes.info/Bill/bill5.htm which I had not seen before.
> 
> The other is Steffen Thorsen's page
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=53
> perhaps Steffen can enlighten us on his sources for this information?
> 
> Regards,
> - Jesper
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Losch [mailto:dirk.losch at gmx.de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:38
> To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: daylight saving in Egypt
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I received a mail from an airline which says that the daylight saving
> time in
> Egypt will end in the night of 2007-09-06 to 2007-09-07.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this?
> 
> ... etc.