Hi Paul, Will you wait for the draft to become final (especially given their 2 recent attempts to introduce DST) or new tzdata might be released earlier? On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 23:02, Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
Thanks for that URL, as it's more official than the Middle East News Agency citation that we were using. I installed the attached proposed further patch.
Today the Economist reported that the Egyptian government hopes DST "will curb the country’s electricity usage and free up natural gas for export, since it generates about 60% of Egypt’s power. But Egyptians are rolling their eyes." See:
Time’s up—whatever the time is: Fiddling with Egypt’s clocks. The Economist. 2023-03-09. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/03/09/fiddling-with-eg...