[tz] Egypt daylight savings will be back

[Ahmad ElDardiry]

No problem!

I'm sorry I'm not familiar with the 24h format, but basically 12am Apr 28
would be advanced 1 hour, and this would last till October 26.

More here:
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/egypt/cairo

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 10:20 PM Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 2023-03-01 03:56, Ahmad ElDardiry via tz wrote:
> > Egypt officially announced today that daylight savings will be applied
> from
> > last Friday of April to last Thursday of October.
>
> Thanks for the heads-up. We'll need a new TZDB release some time fairly
> soon, since our current prediction for Egypt will be wrong starting
> April 28.
>
> Google Translate suggests that the announcement doesn't specify
> transition times. The attached proposed patch assumes the transition
> time is 00:00 in spring (i.e., the start of April's last Friday) and
> 24:00 in fall (i.e., the end of October's last Thursday.) Does that
> sound right to you?
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