[tz] Egypt DST cancelled at least for 2015

Mon Apr 20 18:48:26 UTC 2015

On 20 Apr 2015 13:05, Ahmed Nazmy wrote:
> Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced today 20/Apr/2015 that it will cancel DST at least for 2015 .
An English-language news source for the above:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx
"Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight 
saving time this summer, and carry out studies on the possibility of 
canceling the practice altogether in future years. The cabinet 
previously announced that clocks would go forward one hour starting on 1 
May, but suspended the decision until a national opinion poll was 
carried out to ask citizens whether or not they support daylight saving 
time."

Proposed patch attached, which leaves transitions for 2016 and beyond 
intact, pending the opinion poll.

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Tim Parenti


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From fd466982f8c9c8a31c7fd3825bf4d5f545a734da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Parenti <tim at timtimeonline.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:39:04 -0400
Subject: Egypt does not observe DST in 2015; assume resumption in 2016 for
 now.

* africa (Egypt): No DST in 2015; move Rule lines nearer to
corresponding commentary.
* NEWS: Document this.
---
 NEWS   |  6 ++++++
 africa | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 58ec0a6..1430d3f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ News for the tz database
 
 Unreleased, experimental changes
 
+  Changes affecting future time stamps
+
+    Egypt will not observe DST in 2015.  Pending the results of a national
+    opinion poll, assume for now that DST will resume in 2016, as observed
+    in 2014.  (Thanks to Ahmed Nazmy and Tim Parenti.)
+
   Changes affecting past time stamps
 
     America/Whitehorse switched from UTC-9 to UTC-8 on 1967-05-28, not
diff --git a/africa b/africa
index 8b9ee61..d77d1b1 100644
--- a/africa
+++ b/africa
@@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ Rule	Egypt	2007	only	-	Sep	Thu>=1	24:00	0	-
 # http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again
 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html
 
+Rule	Egypt	2008	only	-	Aug	lastThu	24:00	0	-
+Rule	Egypt	2009	only	-	Aug	20	24:00	0	-
+Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Aug	10	24:00	0	-
+Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Sep	 9	24:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Sep	lastThu	24:00	0	-
+
 # From Ahmad El-Dardiry (2014-05-07):
 # Egypt is to change back to Daylight system on May 15
 # http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/100735/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-government-to-reapply-daylight-saving-time-.aspx
@@ -320,6 +326,11 @@ Rule	Egypt	2007	only	-	Sep	Thu>=1	24:00	0	-
 # no information about when DST will end this fall.  See:
 # http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/el-sissi-pushes-egyptians-line-23614833
 
+Rule	Egypt	2014	only	-	May	15	24:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Egypt	2014	only	-	Jun	26	24:00	0	-
+Rule	Egypt	2014	only	-	Jul	31	24:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Egypt	2014	only	-	Sep	lastThu	24:00	0	-
+
 # From Steffen Thorsen (2015-04-08):
 # Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015.
 # This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last
@@ -328,12 +339,25 @@ Rule	Egypt	2007	only	-	Sep	Thu>=1	24:00	0	-
 # http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ...
 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html
 
+# From Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20):
+# Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced...that it will cancel DST at
+# least for 2015.
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2015-04-20):
+# http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx
+# "Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving
+# time this summer, and carry out studies on the possibility of canceling the
+# practice altogether in future years. The cabinet previously announced that
+# clocks would go forward one hour starting on 1 May, but suspended the
+# decision until a national opinion poll was carried out to ask citizens
+# whether or not they support daylight saving time."
+
 # From Paul Eggert (2015-04-08):
 # For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use
 # 2014's rules, and guess that Egypt will switch to standard time at
 # 24:00 the last Thursday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 00:00 the
 # first Friday after Ramadan.  To implement this,
-# transition dates for 2015 through 2037 were determined by running
+# transition dates for 2016 through 2037 were determined by running
 # the following program under GNU Emacs 24.4, with the results integrated
 # by hand into the table below.  Ramadan again intrudes on the guessed
 # DST starting in 2038, but that's beyond our somewhat-arbitrary cutoff.
@@ -357,20 +381,10 @@ Rule	Egypt	2007	only	-	Sep	Thu>=1	24:00	0	-
 #         (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a))
 #         (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b)))))
 #     (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year))))
-Rule	Egypt	2008	only	-	Aug	lastThu	24:00	0	-
-Rule	Egypt	2009	only	-	Aug	20	24:00	0	-
-Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Aug	10	24:00	0	-
-Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Sep	 9	24:00	1:00	S
-Rule	Egypt	2010	only	-	Sep	lastThu	24:00	0	-
-Rule	Egypt	2014	only	-	May	15	24:00	1:00	S
-Rule	Egypt	2014	only	-	Jun	26	24:00	0	-
-Rule	Egypt	2014	only	-	Jul	31	24:00	1:00	S
-Rule	Egypt	2014	max	-	Sep	lastThu	24:00	0	-
-Rule	Egypt	2015	2019	-	Apr	lastThu	24:00	1:00	S
-Rule	Egypt	2015	only	-	Jun	11	24:00	0	-
-Rule	Egypt	2015	only	-	Jul	23	24:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Egypt	2016	2019	-	Apr	lastThu	24:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Egypt	2016	only	-	Jun	 2	24:00	0	-
 Rule	Egypt	2016	only	-	Jul	 7	24:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Egypt	2016	max	-	Sep	lastThu	24:00	0	-
 Rule	Egypt	2017	only	-	May	25	24:00	0	-
 Rule	Egypt	2017	only	-	Jun	29	24:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Egypt	2018	only	-	May	10	24:00	0	-
-- 
2.1.4

