[tz] Egypt to have DST again

Steffen Thorsen thorsen at timeanddate.com
Fri Apr 29 06:24:04 UTC 2016


Several of our users have reported on new DST plans in Egypt, which is 
confirmed by
several sources that all say Egypt will have DST from July 7 until the 
end of October.

Unfortunately, "end of October" is very vague, but we at timeanddate.com 
would assume a rule like this for it, based on their historic end dates:
Rule    Egypt    2016    max    -    Oct    lastThu    23:00s 0    -
We also assume it will start at the end of July 7 (midnight between 
Thursday and Friday).

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/204655/Egypt/Daylight-savings-time-returning-to-Egypt-on--July.aspx
http://www.nileinternational.net/en/?p=25806

I found it interesting that EgyptAir seems to have assumed DST to start 
in April (like it previously did in 2010), and therefore this obviously 
causes problems with the schedules:

http://www.egyptair.com/en/about-egyptair/news-and-press/Pages/CANCELLATION%20OF%20DAYLIGHT%20SAVING%20TIME.aspx

Best regards,
Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com


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