End of DST in Africa/Cairo

Petr Machata pmachata at redhat.com
Mon Apr 6 14:21:47 UTC 2009


The following appeared in Red Hat bugzilla[1] (edited):

> $ zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo | grep 2009
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo  Thu Apr 23 21:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu Apr 23
> 23:59:59 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo  Thu Apr 23 22:00:00 2009 UTC = Fri Apr 24
> 01:00:00 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo  Thu Aug 27 20:59:59 2009 UTC = Thu Aug 27
> 23:59:59 2009 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo  Thu Aug 27 21:00:00 2009 UTC = Thu Aug 27
> 23:00:00 2009 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200

> end date should be Thu Sep 24 2009 (Last Thursday in September at 23:59:59)
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958729/

timeanddate[2] and another site I've found[3] also support that.

Proposed patch attached.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492263
[2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=53
[3] http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/

Regards,
PM
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