<html><body><div><div>Guess what, according to this article[1] </div><div><br></div><div>Egyptian Parliament today just decided to cancel DST </div><div><br></div><div>I'm still waiting for any kind of official recognition of this news </div><div><br></div><div>[1] http://www.shorouknews.com/mobile/news/view.aspx?cdate=27062016&id=3ff4b872-5d90-4bad-bc34-9f4ba97b13f6</div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> </div><div>Date: 6/14/16 11:02 PM (GMT+03:00) </div><div>To: Matt Johnson <mj1856@hotmail.com>, Time Zone Database <tz@iana.org>, "WorldTimeServer.com Support" <info@worldtimeserver.com> </div><div>Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again </div><div><br></div></div><br><div>On 06/14/2016 11:00 AM, Matt Johnson wrote:
<br>> I have not yet located any official legislative document.
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<br>Me neither, though I haven't looked that hard and I read Arabic only via
<br>automatic translators. Given your recent email and others, though, the
<br>likelihood of the change happening seemed high enough that a new tzdata
<br>release now seemed likely to cure more problems than it would cause.
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<br>The Egyptian government regularly changes daylight-saving rules with
<br>less than two weeks' notice, most recently in April of last year. Let's
<br>hope we guessed right this time. Either way, maybe you could add Egypt
<br>to the hall of fame in
<br><<a href="http://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/#whatabouttherestoftheworld>">http://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/#whatabouttherestoftheworld></a>;,
<br>as Egypt's 2016 ranks right up there with 2015, 2011, 2010,....
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