It would appear that this change has not been confirmed yet. The Arabic version of the original announcement would appear to state that legislation action is still to be taken:http://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/953556.aspx Additionally, several news outlets are reporting that a lawsuit has been filed in the administrative courts: http://www.moheet.com/2016/05/09/2423305 ________________________________ From: tz-bounces@iana.org <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of WorldTimeServer.com Support <info@worldtimeserver.com> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 6:06 AM To: Steffen Thorsen Cc: Time Zone Database Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again 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<mailto: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<http://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<http://timeanddate.com>