Hello, The official information regarding the (expected) date change has been published: http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Miscellaneous/000002/020700000000000000... which says:
"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. Best regards, Steffen / timeanddate.com Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote:
I don't have much update on the supposed early Egypt DST ending, but I found the following two web pages that agree with Dirk Losch and the airline he refers to (or rather doesn't refer to).
One is http://www.nentjes.info/Bill/bill5.htm which I had not seen before.
The other is Steffen Thorsen's page http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=53 perhaps Steffen can enlighten us on his sources for this information?
Regards, - Jesper
-----Original Message----- From: Dirk Losch [mailto:dirk.losch@gmx.de] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 5:38 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: daylight saving in Egypt
Hello,
I received a mail from an airline which says that the daylight saving time in Egypt will end in the night of 2007-09-06 to 2007-09-07.
Can anyone confirm this?
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