From fd466982f8c9c8a31c7fd3825bf4d5f545a734da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Parenti Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:39:04 -0400 Subject: Egypt does not observe DST in 2015; assume resumption in 2016 for now. * africa (Egypt): No DST in 2015; move Rule lines nearer to corresponding commentary. * NEWS: Document this. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ africa | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 58ec0a6..1430d3f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes + Changes affecting future time stamps + + Egypt will not observe DST in 2015. Pending the results of a national + opinion poll, assume for now that DST will resume in 2016, as observed + in 2014. (Thanks to Ahmed Nazmy and Tim Parenti.) + Changes affecting past time stamps America/Whitehorse switched from UTC-9 to UTC-8 on 1967-05-28, not diff --git a/africa b/africa index 8b9ee61..d77d1b1 100644 --- a/africa +++ b/africa @@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 - # http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html +Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 24:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 24:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 10 24:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 9 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 - + # From Ahmad El-Dardiry (2014-05-07): # Egypt is to change back to Daylight system on May 15 # http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/100735/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-government-to-reapply-daylight-saving-time-.aspx @@ -320,6 +326,11 @@ Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 - # no information about when DST will end this fall. See: # http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/el-sissi-pushes-egyptians-line-23614833 +Rule Egypt 2014 only - May 15 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jun 26 24:00 0 - +Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jul 31 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 2014 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 - + # From Steffen Thorsen (2015-04-08): # 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 @@ -328,12 +339,25 @@ Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 - # http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ... # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html +# From Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20): +# Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced...that it will cancel DST at +# least for 2015. +# +# From Tim Parenti (2015-04-20): +# http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx +# "Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving +# time this summer, and carry out studies on the possibility of canceling the +# practice altogether in future years. The cabinet previously announced that +# clocks would go forward one hour starting on 1 May, but suspended the +# decision until a national opinion poll was carried out to ask citizens +# whether or not they support daylight saving time." + # From Paul Eggert (2015-04-08): # For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use # 2014's rules, and guess that Egypt will switch to standard time at # 24:00 the last Thursday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 00:00 the # first Friday after Ramadan. To implement this, -# transition dates for 2015 through 2037 were determined by running +# transition dates for 2016 through 2037 were determined by running # the following program under GNU Emacs 24.4, with the results integrated # by hand into the table below. Ramadan again intrudes on the guessed # DST starting in 2038, but that's beyond our somewhat-arbitrary cutoff. @@ -357,20 +381,10 @@ Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 - # (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a)) # (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b))))) # (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year)))) -Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 24:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 24:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 10 24:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 9 24:00 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2014 only - May 15 24:00 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jun 26 24:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jul 31 24:00 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 2014 max - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2015 2019 - Apr lastThu 24:00 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 2015 only - Jun 11 24:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2015 only - Jul 23 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 2016 2019 - Apr lastThu 24:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 2016 only - Jun 2 24:00 0 - Rule Egypt 2016 only - Jul 7 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 2016 max - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 - Rule Egypt 2017 only - May 25 24:00 0 - Rule Egypt 2017 only - Jun 29 24:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 2018 only - May 10 24:00 0 - -- 2.1.4