<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Any updates on the official status of this change?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Debbie</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 9, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Matt Johnson &lt;<a href="mailto:mj1856@hotmail.com" class="">mj1856@hotmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Additionally, note that the required&nbsp;legislation should be present here:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cc.gov.eg/Legislations/Egypt_Legislations.aspx" id="LPlnk96376" title="http://www.cc.gov.eg/Legislations/Egypt_Legislations.aspx
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" class="">http://www.cc.gov.eg/Legislations/Egypt_Legislations.aspx</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Which indeed shows the presidential decree cancelling DST&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">from last year, and shows other active legislation for this year, but nothing on DST yet.</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">(Note, site may require Egyptian&nbsp;proxy server&nbsp;to access)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">-Matt</div><br class=""><div style="" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 903.546875px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Matt Johnson &lt;<a href="mailto:mj1856@hotmail.com" class="">mj1856@hotmail.com</a>&gt;<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Monday, May 9, 2016 9:57 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://WorldTimeServer.com" class="">WorldTimeServer.com</a> Support; Steffen Thorsen<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Time Zone Database<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again</font><div class="">&nbsp;</div></div><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">It would appear that this change has not been confirmed yet.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">The Arabic version of the original announcement would appear to state that legislation action is still to be taken:<a href="http://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/953556.aspx" id="LPlnk803142" class="">http://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/953556.aspx</a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Additionally, several news outlets are reporting that a lawsuit has been filed in the administrative courts:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://www.moheet.com/2016/05/09/2423305" id="LPlnk395369" title="http://www.moheet.com/2016/05/09/2423305
Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" class="">http://www.moheet.com/2016/05/09/2423305</a><br class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 903.546875px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org" class="">tz-bounces@iana.org</a> &lt;<a href="mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org" class="">tz-bounces@iana.org</a>&gt; on behalf of <a href="http://WorldTimeServer.com" class="">WorldTimeServer.com</a> Support &lt;<a href="mailto:info@worldtimeserver.com" class="">info@worldtimeserver.com</a>&gt;<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Friday, April 29, 2016 6:06 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Steffen Thorsen<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Time Zone Database<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again</font><div class="">&nbsp;</div></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">We have seen similar reports. This one with an Oct date, but nothing official. Chasing down sources now.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(37, 64, 97);" class="">SUMMER TIME IN A.R.E (UTC +3 HOURS) SHALL BE APPLIED THIS YEAR<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(37, 64, 97);" class="">WEF 0001 LOCAL TIME ON&nbsp;08 JUL 2016&nbsp;AND END AT 2100 UTC ON&nbsp;27 OCT<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(37, 64, 97);" class="">2016.</span></div></div><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: rgb(37, 64, 97);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class="">--<div class="">Thanks,<br class=""></div><div class="">Chris</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/" target="_blank" class="">WorldTimeServer.com</a></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Steffen Thorsen<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span dir="ltr" class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:thorsen@timeanddate.com" target="_blank" class="">thorsen@timeanddate.com</a>&gt;</span><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">Several of our users have reported on new DST plans in Egypt, which is confirmed by<br class="">several sources that all say Egypt will have DST from July 7 until the end of October.<br class=""><br class="">Unfortunately, "end of October" is very vague, but we at<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://timeanddate.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">timeanddate.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>would assume a rule like this for it, based on their historic end dates:<br class="">Rule&nbsp; &nbsp; Egypt&nbsp; &nbsp; 2016&nbsp; &nbsp; max&nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp; &nbsp; Oct&nbsp; &nbsp; lastThu&nbsp; &nbsp; 23:00s 0&nbsp; &nbsp; -<br class="">We also assume it will start at the end of July 7 (midnight between Thursday and Friday).<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/204655/Egypt/Daylight-savings-time-returning-to-Egypt-on--July.aspx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/204655/Egypt/Daylight-savings-time-returning-to-Egypt-on--July.aspx</a><br class=""><a href="http://www.nileinternational.net/en/?p=25806" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://www.nileinternational.net/en/?p=25806</a><br class=""><br class="">I found it interesting that EgyptAir seems to have assumed DST to start in April (like it previously did in 2010), and therefore this obviously causes problems with the schedules:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.egyptair.com/en/about-egyptair/news-and-press/Pages/CANCELLATION%20OF%20DAYLIGHT%20SAVING%20TIME.aspx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://www.egyptair.com/en/about-egyptair/news-and-press/Pages/CANCELLATION%20OF%20DAYLIGHT%20SAVING%20TIME.aspx</a><br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">Steffen Thorsen -<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://timeanddate.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">timeanddate.com</a></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>