Additional drama today: "Prime Minister defies Parliament: daylight saving time, God willing, will be applied" http://www.aldiwan.org/6590432.html Mohammed Akkad (Parliament): "... is not the right of the Prime Minister approve..." "... Parliament is the sole owner of the right in the legislation..." http://nuwabonline.com/news/NewsDetails/12136 So in this situation, when a government cannot come to consensus within their own divisions, who do we listen to? ________________________________ From: tz-bounces@iana.org <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Matt Johnson <mj1856@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 10:43 AM To: Ahmed Nazmy; Paul Eggert; Time Zone Database; WorldTimeServer.com Support Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again Wow. Epic flip-flopping... Lots of other news sites reporting this also. Here's one with significant more detail: http://www.parlmany.com/News/7/98619/- No news yet on the parliament web site (http://www.parliament.gov.eg/) or any other official site I can find. Will keep monitoring. Thanks, -Matt ________________________________ From: Ahmed Nazmy <anazmy@redhat.com> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 8:06 AM To: Paul Eggert; Matt Johnson; Time Zone Database; WorldTimeServer.com Support Subject: RE: [tz] Egypt to have DST again Guess what, according to this article[1] Egyptian Parliament today just decided to cancel DST I'm still waiting for any kind of official recognition of this news [1] http://www.shorouknews.com/mobile/news/view.aspx?cdate=27062016&id=3ff4b872-... Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message -------- From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 6/14/16 11:02 PM (GMT+03:00) To: Matt Johnson <mj1856@hotmail.com>, Time Zone Database <tz@iana.org>, "WorldTimeServer.com Support" <info@worldtimeserver.com> Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt to have DST again On 06/14/2016 11:00 AM, Matt Johnson wrote:
I have not yet located any official legislative document.
Me neither, though I haven't looked that hard and I read Arabic only via automatic translators. Given your recent email and others, though, the likelihood of the change happening seemed high enough that a new tzdata release now seemed likely to cure more problems than it would cause. The Egyptian government regularly changes daylight-saving rules with less than two weeks' notice, most recently in April of last year. Let's hope we guessed right this time. Either way, maybe you could add Egypt to the hall of fame in <http://codeofmatt.com/2016/04/23/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/#whatabo...>;, as Egypt's 2016 ranks right up there with 2015, 2011, 2010,....