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

[Aaron Brown]

6:08 am is the time of the new moon, not the time that the crescent
will appear. The crescent moon that marks the beginning of the Muslim
month can only be seen in the evening.  It would be first visible on
the evening of August 10 or 11.  http://moonsighting.com/vis-maps.html
suggests it will be August 11 for the Middle East.  This suggests the
Ramadan would begin on the evening of August 11.  It seems, then that
they will make the switch about 18 hours before the beginning of
Ramadan, which seems quite reasonable.  However, according to
wikipedia, Ramadan starts on August 10.  Other websites show it
starting on August 11.  Go figure.  The first full day of Ramadan, by
the traditional definition, should be August 12.

Aaron

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Arthur David Olson
<olsona at elsie.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
> We have this at http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again:
>
>        In a statement released yesterday, the cabinet clarified that clocks
>        will move back by one hour at midnight on Tuesday 10 August, to be
>        moved forward again after Ramadan, on Thursday 9 September.  Clocks
>        will roll back once more on Thursday 30 September to put the nation on
>        winter time, as stipulated by law.
>
>        Mosslem Shaltout, professor of solar-space physics and vice-chairman of
>        the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences (AUASS), said Ramadan
>        will start, atronomically speaking, on Wednesday 11 August.
>
>        According to Shaltout, the moon's crescent will appear at 6:08 AM on 10
>        August, when the moon is on the same level with the sun and earth,
>        marking the beginning of Ramadan.
>
> Mosslem Shaltout is said to refer to an August 10 crescent moon,
> and also is said to refer to an August 11 start of Ramadan.
>
> We also have this at http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-ends-dst-2010.html:
>
>        DST ends and clocks will move one hour back at midnight (00:00) between
>        Tuesday August 10, and Wednesday August 11, in 2010.
>
>        Egypt will revert back to DST after Ramadan and move their clocks
>        forward at midnight (00:00) between Thursday, September 9, and Friday
>        September 10, 2010.
>
>        Egypt will end its 2010 DST schedule at midnight (00:00) local time
>        between Thursday, September 30, and Friday, October 1.
>
> Perhaps the clearest translation to rules is:
> Rule    Egypt   2010    only    -       Aug     11      0:00    0       -
> Rule    Egypt   2010    only    -       Sep     10      0:00    1:00    S
>
> The first rule behaves the same way as what's now in the "africa" file;
> the second rule restarts DST a day later than what's now in the file.
>
>                                --ado
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