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Re: daylight saving in Egypt
by Patrice Scattolin Sept. 5, 2007

Sept. 5, 2007

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=53 shows a change time of Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 11:59:59 PM So it looks like even thought the 2008 date passed, it has been picked. Anyone knows how official this 2008 date is? Would be nice to do the 2008 early in advance. Steffen Thorsen wrote: > Yes, indeed - it is fine, I looked at the wrong file, sorry about that. > > However, it is very likely that the date will not be incorrect for > 2008, as it will fall in the middle of Ramadan (again), so that might > be something to change later. Who knows if they will move the date > into August or to October. > > Best regards, > Steffen > > Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote: >>>> "Egypt will start its wintertime as of Friday, September 7," Cabinet >>>> Spokesman Magdi Radi announced Wednesday 22/8/2007. This means that >>>> Egyptians will set their clocks one hour backward. >>>> >>>> Egypt operates Daylight-Saving Time between the last Friday in April >>>> and the last Thursday in September when the clocks are a 3 hours >> ahead >>>> of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). >>>> >>>> The date will change a little bit this year because of Ramadan, the >>>> Holy Muslims fasting month due to start Thursday, September 13. >>> The current tzdata2007g.tar.gz does not have this, but Paul Eggert's >>> latest patch has it - so it is probably time to make a new release >>> by Friday. >> >> It seems to me as if tzdata2007g.tar.gz does reflect the moved-up >> change--see below. >> >> --ado >> >> Script started on Tue Sep 04 16:47:08 2007 >> lecserver$ ftp elsie.nci.nih.gov >> Connected to lecserver. >> 220 lecserver FTP server (Version >> wu-2.6.2(4)+connect-dos.patch+realpath.patch Tue Apr 13 15:43:02 EDT >> 2004) ready. >> Name (elsie.nci.nih.gov:olsona): anonymous >> 331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password. >> Password: >> 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. >> ftp> binary >> 200 Type set to I. >> ftp> cd pub >> 250 CWD command successful. >> ftp> get tzdata2007g.tar.gz >> 200 PORT command successful. >> 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for tzdata2007g.tar.gz (161080 >> bytes). >> 226 Transfer complete. >> local: tzdata2007g.tar.gz remote: tzdata2007g.tar.gz >> 161080 bytes received in 0.029 seconds (5512.11 Kbytes/s) >> ftp> quit >> 221-You have transferred 161080 bytes in 1 files. >> 221-Total traffic for this session was 161827 bytes in 1 transfers. >> 221-Thank you for using the FTP service on lecserver. >> 221 Goodbye. >> lecserver$ gunzip < *.gz | tar xf - >> lecserver$ grep "Egypt.*2007" africa >> # saving time in Egypt will end in the night of 2007-09-06 to >> 2007-09-07. >> Rule Egypt 2007 max - Sep Thu>=1 23:00s 0 >> - >> lecserver$ exit >> script done on Tue Sep 04 16:48:24 2007 > -- Oracle Email Signature Logo Patrice Scattolin | Software Development Manager | 514.905.8744 Oracle Collaborative Application Services 600 Blvd de Maisonneuve West Suite 1900 Montreal, Quebec

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FW: daylight saving in Egypt
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] Sept. 4, 2007

Sept. 4, 2007

I'm forwarding this message from Dirk Losch, who is on the time zone mailing list on an address other than the one from which this message was sent. Direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Losch [mailto:dirk.losch@gmx.de] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:38 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: daylight saving in Egypt Hello, I received a mail from an airline which says that the daylight saving time in Egypt will end in the night of 2007-09-06 to 2007-09-07. Can anyone confirm this? In the database are the following entries: .... Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1995 2005 - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - # From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-19): # The Egyptian Gazette, issue 41,090 (2006-09-18), page 1, reports: # Egypt will turn back clocks by one hour at the midnight of Thursday # after observing the daylight saving time since May. # http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 21 23:00s 0 - Rule Egypt 2007 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - ... Best regards - dirk -

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