Appears to be settled but no official government notice yet: http://www.mena.org.eg/en/section/EnglishEgypt/ Summer time not be enforced - Cabinet Date: 2016-07-04 11:29:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:47 - ID:5206893 CAIRO, July 4 (MENA) - The Cabinet decided not to enforce the daylight saving time, which was supposed to start Thursday. An amendment to Law 24 of 2015 was introduced at the House of Representatives to suspend summer time for good. (MENA) W N E/D .... http://www.mena.org.eg/en/section/EnglishEgypt/7 Cabinet to point out financial burdens of cancelling daylight saving time Date: 2016-06-30 15:20:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:53 - ID:5189005 CAIRO, June 30 (MENA) - The cabinet said on Thursday that it will explain to the House of Representatives anew the financial burdens that will occur in the electricity, petroleum and aviation sectors if the daylight saving time was cancelled. The .... http://www.mena.org.eg/en/section/EnglishEgypt/9 Cabinet not willing to withdraw daylight saving time decision Date: 2016-06-29 18:37:13 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:112 - ID:5184261 CAIRO, June 29 (MENA) – The cabinet is not willing to withdraw its decision to switch clocks for daylight saving time, a cabinet official said. In April, the government announced that the daylight savings time would be postponed and would return .... On 2016-07-04 05:13, Mina Samuel wrote:

I can imagine the confusion happening to you with this, But the fact that we got a lot of conflicts to get the final decision and the decision initially was from the government, then the parlament rejected this, And finally today the government agreed on that, and cancelled the DST, I know it is a mess, but the fact their decision affecting our technology and operation for the telecom networks plus thousands of affected business, That is why we are seeking your support on this.

*From:*Frank Bean [mailto:macbean@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, July 04, 2016 1:05 PM *To:* Mina Samuel <mina.samuel@ericsson.com> *Cc:* tz@iana.org; Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>; Yasser Elsawi, Vodafone Egypt <Yasser.Elsawi@vodafone.com>; Ramy Rasmy <ramy.rasmy@ericsson.com>; Shreef Khattab, Vodafone Egypt (Shreef.Khattab@vodafone.com) <Shreef.Khattab@vodafone.com>; Gehan Moustafa, Vodafone Egypt (Gehan.Moustafa@vodafone.com) <Gehan.Moustafa@vodafone.com> *Subject:* Re: [tz] Egypt cancelled DST I don't get where all the different dates came from. First reports were regarding DST starting on the 7th, then the 5th was mentioned and now that it is canceled (if it really is) they say it was to be applied on the 8th.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Mina Samuel <mina.samuel@ericsson.com <mailto:mina.samuel@ericsson.com>> wrote: Egyptian government took the decision to cancel the DST, Can you please help to provide the updated package as to be able to apply the new/cancelled rules. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ar&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF... http://www.youm7.com/story/2016/7/4/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%...

-- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Dears, I know you have had many communications on this. Sincerely, sorry for that and hope you understand it is totally out of our hands. For now, the DST is officially cancelled and shared in the official news as well as through the mobile operators. The situation is that we have rolled the previous package in the whole network and we are in urgent need for your help and support regarding the below: - Cancellation package to cancel the DST that is going to happen on the system, on 7th of July as the current package is loaded already. - If there is a way to manually edit the time settings in the current package to make it for example as if it will change the time on 7th Of August? The reason behind that is to give us some time to load the cancellation patch (when delivered) in the whole network again (as it requires node restarts as well). Once again, sorry for the inconvenience and really appreciating your support. Thanks, ABDELRAHMAN GANO Ericsson Egypt LTD OM/E/A KM28 SMART VILLAGE, CAIRO/ALEX ROAD, B86, ERICSSON P.O.BOX 27-12577, Egypt Phone +202 536 9100 Fax +202 537 0141, +202 537 0142 SMS/MMS +201000059906 abdel.rahman.gano@ericsson.com<mailto:abdel.rahman.gano@ericsson.com> www.ericsson.com<http://www.ericsson.com/> [http://www.ericsson.com/]<http://www.ericsson.com/> This Communication is Confidential. We only send and receive email on the basis of the term set out at www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer<http://www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer> From: Mina Samuel Sent: Monday, July 04, 2016 1:13 PM To: Frank Bean Cc: tz@iana.org; Paul Eggert; Yasser Elsawi, Vodafone Egypt; Ramy Rasmy; Shreef Khattab, Vodafone Egypt (Shreef.Khattab@vodafone.com); Gehan Moustafa, Vodafone Egypt (Gehan.Moustafa@vodafone.com); Rafik Adib; Abdel Rahman Gano Subject: RE: [tz] Egypt cancelled DST I can imagine the confusion happening to you with this, But the fact that we got a lot of conflicts to get the final decision and the decision initially was from the government, then the parlament rejected this, And finally today the government agreed on that, and cancelled the DST, I know it is a mess, but the fact their decision affecting our technology and operation for the telecom networks plus thousands of affected business, That is why we are seeking your support on this. Thanks Mina From: Frank Bean [mailto:macbean@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 04, 2016 1:05 PM To: Mina Samuel <mina.samuel@ericsson.com<mailto:mina.samuel@ericsson.com>> Cc: tz@iana.org<mailto:tz@iana.org>; Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu<mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu>>; Yasser Elsawi, Vodafone Egypt <Yasser.Elsawi@vodafone.com<mailto:Yasser.Elsawi@vodafone.com>>; Ramy Rasmy <ramy.rasmy@ericsson.com<mailto:ramy.rasmy@ericsson.com>>; Shreef Khattab, Vodafone Egypt (Shreef.Khattab@vodafone.com<mailto:Shreef.Khattab@vodafone.com>) <Shreef.Khattab@vodafone.com<mailto:Shreef.Khattab@vodafone.com>>; Gehan Moustafa, Vodafone Egypt (Gehan.Moustafa@vodafone.com<mailto:Gehan.Moustafa@vodafone.com>) <Gehan.Moustafa@vodafone.com<mailto:Gehan.Moustafa@vodafone.com>> Subject: Re: [tz] Egypt cancelled DST I don't get where all the different dates came from. First reports were regarding DST starting on the 7th, then the 5th was mentioned and now that it is canceled (if it really is) they say it was to be applied on the 8th. On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Mina Samuel <mina.samuel@ericsson.com<mailto:mina.samuel@ericsson.com>> wrote: Dears, Egyptian government took the decision to cancel the DST, Can you please help to provide the updated package as to be able to apply the new/cancelled rules. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ar&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF... http://www.youm7.com/story/2016/7/4/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%...

Egyptian [and other governments unable to plan ahead] folks, Please ask your goverments to provide a month or six notice in official announcements of time zone or daylight saving changes, and make them aware that software developers, local and international organizations, and global software providers have policies and processes to follow and standards to meet, so need adequate time to create, generate, test, and rollout updates, to avoid the same problems caused by politicians making announcements of changes without adequate notice. See any major software provider's web pages about daylight savings and time zone changes for their notice requirements. Picking the US Independence Day long weekend and the start of Eid to announce a change did not make things easier for anyone. "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Ps_(military_adage) https://www.google.com/search?q=poor+planning+on+your+part+does+not+constitu... EgyptAir finally has an announcement on their rolling news header linking to: http://www.egyptair.com/en/about-egyptair/news-and-press/Pages/CANCELLATION%... On 2016-07-04 06:36, Yasser Elsawi, Vodafone Egypt wrote:

As Gano mentioned, yes we need the package of the cancellation, I know that the decision changed but we are facing a very limited time to rollback it.

So we need the rollback package ASAP to start applying it to be ready.

*From:*Abdel Rahman Gano

I know you have had many communications on this. Sincerely, sorry for that and hope you understand it is totally out of our hands.

For now, the DST is officially cancelled and shared in the official news as well as through the mobile operators.

The situation is that we have rolled the previous package in the whole network and we are in urgent need for your help and support regarding the below:

- Cancellation package to cancel the DST that is going to happen on the system, on 7^th of July as the current package is loaded already.

- If there is a way to manually edit the time settings in the current package to make it for example as if it will change the time on 7^th Of August? The reason behind that is to give us some time to load the cancellation patch (when delivered) in the whole network again (as it requires node restarts as well).

Once again, sorry for the inconvenience and really appreciating your support.

*From:*Mina Samuel

I can imagine the confusion happening to you with this,

But the fact that we got a lot of conflicts to get the final decision and the decision initially was from the government, then the parlament rejected this,

And finally today the government agreed on that, and cancelled the DST,

I know it is a mess, but the fact their decision affecting our technology and operation for the telecom networks plus thousands of affected business,

That is why we are seeking your support on this.

*From:*Frank Bean

I don't get where all the different dates came from. First reports were regarding DST starting on the 7th, then the 5th was mentioned and now that it is canceled (if it really is) they say it was to be applied on the 8th.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Mina Samuel wrote:

Egyptian government took the decision to cancel the DST,

Can you please help to provide the updated package as to be able to apply the new/cancelled rules.

-- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada