On Tuesday, June 28 2016, "Matt Johnson" wrote to "Ahmed Nazmy, Paul Eggert, Time Zone Database, WorldTimeServer.com Support" saying:
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?
We wait to see what people on the ground actually do. (As happened in 2001 with Mexico City, when there was a dispute about whether the local or federal goverment had authority over DST.)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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= 3ff4b872-5d90-4bad-bc34-9f4ba97b13f6
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/# whatabouttherestoftheworld>;, as Egypt's 2016 ranks right up there with 2015, 2011, 2010,....
-- Jonathan Lennox lennox@cs.columbia.edu