Egypt plan to [cancel] DST during Ramadan and then to resume DST again.

Arthur David Olson olsona at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Tue Jul 20 20:03:07 UTC 2010


Below is a proposed change to deal with Egypt's 2010 DST hole;
I'll include this in tzdata2010k.tar.gz (due out 2010-07-26)
unless a problem is found.

				--ado

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  # and can be found by searching for "winter" in their search engine
  # (at least today).
  
+ # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-07-20):
+ # According to News from Egypt -  Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt's cabinet has
+ # decided that Daylight Saving Time will not be used in Egypt during
+ # Ramadan.
+ #
+ # Arabic translation:
+ # "Clocks to go back during Ramadan--and then forward again"
+ # <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again">
+ # http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again
+ # </a>
+ # or
+ # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html">
+ # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html
+ # </a>
+ 
  Rule	Egypt	2008	only	-	Aug	lastThu	23:00s	0	-
  Rule	Egypt	2009	only	-	Aug	20	23:00s	0	-
+ Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Aug	10	23:00s	0	-
+ Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Sep	9	0:00s	1:00	S
  Rule	Egypt	2010	max	-	Sep	lastThu	23:00s	0	-
  
  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]



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