[tz] Egypt to have DST again

[Matt Johnson]

Additional drama today:


"Prime Minister defies Parliament: daylight saving time, God willing, will be applied"

http://www.aldiwan.org/6590432.html


Mohammed Akkad (Parliament):

"... is not the right of the Prime Minister approve..."

"... Parliament is the sole owner of the right in the legislation..."

http://nuwabonline.com/news/NewsDetails/12136


So in this situation, when a government cannot come to consensus within their own divisions, who do we listen to?


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From: tz-bounces at iana.org <tz-bounces at iana.org> on behalf of Matt Johnson <mj1856 at hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 10:43 AM
To: Ahmed Nazmy; Paul Eggert; Time Zone Database; WorldTimeServer.com Support
Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again


Wow.  Epic flip-flopping...


Lots of other news sites reporting this also.  Here's one with significant more detail:

http://www.parlmany.com/News/7/98619/-

No news yet on the parliament web site (http://www.parliament.gov.eg/) or any other official site I can find.  Will keep monitoring.

Thanks,
-Matt

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From: Ahmed Nazmy <anazmy at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 8:06 AM
To: Paul Eggert; Matt Johnson; Time Zone Database; WorldTimeServer.com Support
Subject: RE: [tz] Egypt to have DST again

Guess what, according to this article[1]

Egyptian Parliament today  just decided to cancel DST

I'm still waiting for any kind of official recognition of this news

[1] http://www.shorouknews.com/mobile/news/view.aspx?cdate=27062016&id=3ff4b872-5d90-4bad-bc34-9f4ba97b13f6

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.


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From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: 6/14/16 11:02 PM (GMT+03:00)
To: Matt Johnson <mj1856 at hotmail.com>, Time Zone Database <tz at iana.org>, "WorldTimeServer.com Support" <info at worldtimeserver.com>
Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again


On 06/14/2016 11:00 AM, Matt Johnson wrote:
> I have not yet located any official legislative document.

Me neither, though I haven't looked that hard and I read Arabic only via
automatic translators. Given your recent email and others, though, the
likelihood of the change happening seemed high enough that a new tzdata
release now seemed likely to cure more problems than it would cause.

The Egyptian government regularly changes daylight-saving rules with
less than two weeks' notice, most recently in April of last year. Let's
hope we guessed right this time. Either way, maybe you could add Egypt
to the hall of fame in
<http://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/#whatabouttherestoftheworld>;,
as Egypt's 2016 ranks right up there with 2015, 2011, 2010,....

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