We have seen similar reports. This one with an Oct date, but nothing official. Chasing down sources now. SUMMER TIME IN A.R.E (UTC +3 HOURS) SHALL BE APPLIED THIS YEAR WEF 0001 LOCAL TIME ON 08 JUL 2016 AND END AT 2100 UTC ON 27 OCT 2016. -- Thanks, Chris WorldTimeServer.com <http://www.worldtimeserver.com> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Steffen Thorsen <thorsen@timeanddate.com> wrote:
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-tim... 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%...
Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com