Steffen Thorsen writes:

The Egyptian Gazette, issue 41 090 on 2006-09-18, page 1 now reports that:

EGYPT will turn back clocks by one hour at the midnight of Thursday after observing the daylight saving time since May.

http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf

Ouch. Thanks for the heads-up. So they changed their minds again, with only four days' notice? Their new rule is more historically compatible; perhaps that's why. Currently we have them changing at 2006-09-25 at 01:00 local time.

From this news item I assume that it should be 2006-09-22 at 00:00 local time.

I'll CC: this to Hammad Hassan to get his feedback, but the following patch should do the trick. This is in addition to the Syria and Uruguay patches I sent earlier this week. --- africa 2006/09/18 16:58:11 2006.12 +++ africa 2006/09/19 23:38:52 @@ -212,35 +212,13 @@ Rule Egypt 1990 1994 - May 1 1:00 1:00 # Go with IATA starting in 1995, except correct 1995 entry from 09-30 to 09-29. Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1995 2005 - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - -# From Hammad Hassan (2006-09-13), quoting The Egyptian Gazette (2006-09-10), -# issue no. 41,083, page 1, column 1: -# Egypt will switch back to the winter time on the eve of the first day of -# the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, expected to start this year on Sept. 24.... -# "Clocks will be turned back starting from the night on which Darul Ifta ... -# announces sighting the crescent of the month of Ramadan,..." Magdi Radi, -# the Cabinet spokesman, said yesterday. -# From Hammad Hassan (2006-09-17): -# when we reach 1:00AM at Sep 25 the clocks will be turned back to 12:00AM. -# I think also this change will be this year and may be the next couple of -# years only. (They just want to exclude Ramadan from the summer time; if -# so, the change will be among 3 years only if my calculations are correct). -# From Paul Eggert (2006-09-17): -# For now, assume a similar rule will be followed in 2006/2008, and that -# Ramadan will start as predicted by GNU Emacs 21.4. Here's the code used -# to generate the 2006/2008 lines: -# (let ((year 1427)) -# (while (< year (+ 1427 3)) -# (let ((date (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute -# (calendar-absolute-from-islamic (list 9 2 year))))) -# (insert (format "Rule\tEgypt\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 1:00\t0\t-\n" -# (extract-calendar-year date) -# (calendar-month-name (extract-calendar-month date) 3) -# (extract-calendar-day date)))) -# (setq year (1+ year))))) -Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 25 1:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep 14 1:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2008 only - Sep 3 1:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2009 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-19): +# The Egyptian Gazette, issue 41,090 (2006-09-18), page 1, reports: +# Egypt will turn back clocks by one hour at the midnight of Thursday +# after observing the daylight saving time since May. +# http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf +Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 21 23:00s 0 - +Rule Egypt 2007 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct