[tz] Egypt to have DST again

[Jonathan Lennox]

On Tuesday, June 28 2016, "Matt Johnson" wrote to "Ahmed Nazmy, Paul Eggert, Time 	Zone Database, WorldTimeServer.com Support" saying:

> Additional drama today:
> 
> 
> "Prime Minister defies Parliament: daylight saving time, God willing, will be
> applied"
> 
> http://www.aldiwan.org/6590432.html
> 
> 
> Mohammed Akkad (Parliament):
> 
> "... is not the right of the Prime Minister approve..."
> 
> "... Parliament is the sole owner of the right in the legislation..."
> 
> http://nuwabonline.com/news/NewsDetails/12136
> 
> 
> 
> So in this situation, when a government cannot come to consensus within their
> own divisions, who do we listen to?

We wait to see what people on the ground actually do.  (As happened in 2001
with Mexico City, when there was a dispute about whether the local or
federal goverment had authority over DST.)

> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: tz-bounces at iana.org <tz-bounces at iana.org> on behalf of Matt Johnson
> <mj1856 at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 10:43 AM
> To: Ahmed Nazmy; Paul Eggert; Time Zone Database; WorldTimeServer.com Support
> Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again
>  
> 
> Wow.  Epic flip-flopping...
> 
> 
> Lots of other news sites reporting this also.  Here's one with significant more
> detail:
> 
> http://www.parlmany.com/News/7/98619/-
> 
> No news yet on the parliament web site (http://www.parliament.gov.eg/) or any
> other official site I can find.  Will keep monitoring.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Matt
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Ahmed Nazmy <anazmy at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 8:06 AM
> To: Paul Eggert; Matt Johnson; Time Zone Database; WorldTimeServer.com Support
> Subject: RE: [tz] Egypt to have DST again
>  
> Guess what, according to this article[1] 
> 
> Egyptian Parliament today  just decided to cancel DST 
> 
> I'm still waiting for any kind of official recognition of this news 
> 
> [1] http://www.shorouknews.com/mobile/news/view.aspx?cdate=27062016&id=
> 3ff4b872-5d90-4bad-bc34-9f4ba97b13f6
> 
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: 6/14/16 11:02 PM (GMT+03:00)
> To: Matt Johnson <mj1856 at hotmail.com>, Time Zone Database <tz at iana.org>,
> "WorldTimeServer.com Support" <info at worldtimeserver.com>
> Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again
> 
> 
> On 06/14/2016 11:00 AM, Matt Johnson wrote:
> > I have not yet located any official legislative document.
> 
> Me neither, though I haven't looked that hard and I read Arabic only via
> automatic translators. Given your recent email and others, though, the
> likelihood of the change happening seemed high enough that a new tzdata
> release now seemed likely to cure more problems than it would cause.
> 
> The Egyptian government regularly changes daylight-saving rules with
> less than two weeks' notice, most recently in April of last year. Let's
> hope we guessed right this time. Either way, maybe you could add Egypt
> to the hall of fame in
> <http://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/#
> whatabouttherestoftheworld>;,
> as Egypt's 2016 ranks right up there with 2015, 2011, 2010,....
> 

-- 
Jonathan Lennox
lennox at cs.columbia.edu