I have just tried to modify the africa file to represent the modification that will probably be necessary for Egypt as per Hammad's info (The Egyptian Gazette, 10th September):

Clocks to turn back
in Ramadan

EGYPT will switch back to the winter
time on the eve of the first day of the
Muslim holy month of Ramadan, expected
to start this year on September 24.
   The beginning of Ramadan, during
which Muslims abstain from food and
drinking from dawn to dusk, is determined
by spotting the new moon.
   "Clocks will be turned back starting
from the night on which Darul Ifta (the
authority passing Islamic edicts) announces
sighting the crescent of the month of
Ramadan and the start of fasting," Magdi
Radi, the Cabinet spokesman, said yester-
day.

--- tzdata2006k-original/africa 2006-08-21 10:55:51.000000000 -0300
+++ tzdata2006k/africa 2006-09-13 08:39: 10.000000000 -0300
@@ -211,7 +211,9 @@
# IATA (after 1990) says transitions are at 0:00.
# Go with IATA starting in 1995, except correct 1995 entry from 09-30 to 09-29.
Rule   Egypt   1995    max     -       Apr     lastFri 0:00s 1:00    S
-Rule   Egypt   1995    max     -       Sep     lastThu 23:00s 0       -
+Rule   Egypt   1995    2005    -       Sep     lastThu 23:00s 0       -
+Rule   Egypt   2006    only    -       Sep     24      0:00s   0       -
+Rule   Egypt   2007    max     -       Sep     lastThu 0:00s   0       -

# Zone NAME            GMTOFF RULES   FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone   Africa/Cairo    2:05:00 -       LMT     1900 Oct

I believe this modification also fixes the difference between code and final comment for Egypt: the comment says transitions should be at 0:00 except for 1995 but the current code does otherwise.

Hammad, could you send us some info about the final, definitive alteration? I ask this as per the info you sent, the 24th September isn't final yet.

Rodrigo Severo

On 9/13/06, Hammad Hassan-WHH011 <WHH011@motorola.com> wrote:

Hello,

Please find the attached file from the Egyptian Gazette newspapers on 10 of September 2006,

Could you please give me information on how to change the rules on my system?

Thank you and Regards,

Hassan Hammad

-----Original Message-----
From: rsevero@gmail.com [mailto: rsevero@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Severo
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:54 PM
To: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov
Cc: Hammad Hassan-WHH011
Subject: Re: FW: Time zone rules change

On 9/13/06, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:

>

> Since the rules are changed lately by Egypt government, I need to change the

> predefined rules in the time zone file,

Could you send us the new rules? If you could also include some link

to official information (or non-official) regarding this issue, it

would also be included in tz's documentation.

Best regards,

Rodrigo Severo

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