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,....