Good day, According to several news reports, Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015. This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last Thursday of April. This means we will to change the rule to "lastThu 24:00s" instead of "lastFri 0:00s". Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but dates not yet announced. Some sources (Arabic): http://www.masralarabia.com/%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B... 547833-30-%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9 %D9%85%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8% B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 Our English summary: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/egypt/cairo The latest IANA data was pointing the change will happen 24th April. But now it seems it will be changing to 1st May Thanks, Ahmed -- HYPERLINK "http://www.oracle.com/us/support/best-practices/overview/index.html"cid:part1.09080109.00060709@oracle.com HYPERLINK "http://www.oracle.com/" \nOracle Ahmed Mekawy | Principal Technical Account Manager Phone: HYPERLINK "tel:+971%2043%20909%20356"+202 3535 0211 | Mobile: HYPERLINK "tel:+971%2043%20909%20356"+2 01060064214 Oracle Global Systems Support ORACLE Egypt | 2 ElHegaz St., CEDARE Building | 11737 Cairo HYPERLINK "http://www.oracle.com/commitment" \nGreen OracleOracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment