I have just received a reply from my contact in Riyadh who says "No, not even a rumour here" to the question - as far as we can see there is no DST in Saudi. Alex Bailey EDS-Xerox EMEA Network Support Marlow, UK.

-----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [SMTP:eggert@twinsun.com] Sent: 02 April 1998 21:27 To: alex.bailey@uk.xerox.com Cc: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: daylight saving time in Saudi Arabia

In comp.sys.hp.hpux you write:

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Saudi Arabia goes to daylight saving time at midnite on 3/4/98, ie tomorrow nite.

Can you please give more details about this? Did Saudi Arabia just start using daylight-saving time this year? Does Saudi Arabia use the same daylight-saving rules as Jordan, or some other rules? (Jordan switches forward on the first Friday in April at 00:00, and switches back on the third Friday in September at 01:00.)

Do you know whether other nearby countries are also newly observing DST?

Thanks for any information you can provide; I'll include it in the public domain daylight-saving time database at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/.