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

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