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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The change is already applied within master. With Java Time Zone Updat Tool 2.0 you can create your own tzdata archive and apply this change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I have done this yesterday as 2015c was not suitable anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">HowTo for this workaround (until the changed are released):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Download latest tzdata file from
<a href="http://www.iana.org/time-zones">http://www.iana.org/time-zones</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Extract to a temp directory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Download file africa from
<a href="https://github.com/eggert/tz">https://github.com/eggert/tz</a> and replace it in the extracted files<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Repack all the files into a file tzdata2015c.patched.tar.gz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Create a file containing the sha512 sum (e.g. sha512sum tzdata2015c.patched.tar.gz) and out the checksum into a file called tzdata2015c.patched.tar.gz.sha512<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#1F497D">Now you can point the Java Time Zone Updater Tool to use this file by using the –l switch and the file protocol (e.g. java –jar tzupdater.jar –l file///path/to/archive/tzdata2015c.patched.tar.gz)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Note: While updating it is possible that the update shows dataversion 2015a. Just run the updater again with the –V switch to check if 2015c was applied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mohamed Raouf, Vodafone Egypt<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 23, 2015 10:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> tz@iana.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [tz] Egypt 30th Aug DST cancellation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Sirs,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">On behalf of Vodafone Egypt, </span>
I’m writing to inquire about DST package to cancel time change for year 2015 in Egypt. Due to some political decisions, Egyptian government decided to cancel DST that was planned on 30<sup>th</sup> of April 2015. It is needed to have and updated java package
<b>tzdata2015 </b>that is developed by IANA. Below is an official confirmation that DST will be canceled for this year<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/egypt/cairo">http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/egypt/cairo</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yousry Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
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