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.
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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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