@@ -319,35 +319,29 @@ Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 -
319319# above) says DST had no affect on electricity consumption. There is
320320# no information about when DST will end this fall. See:
321321# http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/el-sissi-pushes-egyptians-line-23614833
322+
323+ # From Steffen Thorsen (2015-04-08):
324+ # Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015.
325+ # This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last
326+ # Thursday of April.... Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but
327+ # dates not yet announced....
328+ # http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ...
329+ # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html
330+
331+ # From Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20):
332+ # Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced ... that it will cancel DST at
333+ # least for 2015.
322334#
323- # For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use
324- # 2010's rules, and guess that Egypt will switch to standard time at
325- # 24:00 the last Thursday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 00:00 the
326- # first Friday after Ramadan. To implement this,
327- # transition dates for 2015 through 2037 were determined by running
328- # the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3, with the results integrated
329- # by hand into the table below. Ramadan again intrudes on the guessed
330- # DST starting in 2038, but that's beyond our somewhat-arbitrary cutoff.
331- # (let ((islamic-year 1436))
332- # (while (< islamic-year 1460)
333- # (let ((a (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year)))
334- # (b (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year)))
335- # (friday 5))
336- # (while (/= friday (mod a 7))
337- # (setq a (1- a)))
338- # (while (/= friday (mod b 7))
339- # (setq b (1+ b)))
340- # (setq a (1- a))
341- # (setq b (1- b))
342- # (setq a (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute a))
343- # (setq b (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute b))
344- # (insert
345- # (format
346- # (concat "Rule\tEgypt\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t24:00\t0\t-\n"
347- # "Rule\tEgypt\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t24:00\t1:00\tS\n")
348- # (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a))
349- # (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b)))))
350- # (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year))))
335+ # From Tim Parenti (2015-04-20):
336+ # http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx
337+ # "Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving
338+ # time this summer, and carry out studies on the possibility of canceling the
339+ # practice altogether in future years."
340+ #
341+ # From Paul Eggert (2015-04-20):
342+ # For now, assume DST will be canceled. Any resumption would likely
343+ # use different rules anyway.
344+
351345Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 24:00 0 -
352346Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 24:00 0 -
353347Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 10 24:00 0 -
@@ -356,22 +350,7 @@ Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
356350Rule Egypt 2014 only - May 15 24:00 1:00 S
357351Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jun 26 24:00 0 -
358352Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jul 31 24:00 1:00 S
359- Rule Egypt 2014 max - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
360- Rule Egypt 2015 2019 - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S
361- Rule Egypt 2015 only - Jun 11 24:00 0 -
362- Rule Egypt 2015 only - Jul 23 24:00 1:00 S
363- Rule Egypt 2016 only - Jun 2 24:00 0 -
364- Rule Egypt 2016 only - Jul 7 24:00 1:00 S
365- Rule Egypt 2017 only - May 25 24:00 0 -
366- Rule Egypt 2017 only - Jun 29 24:00 1:00 S
367- Rule Egypt 2018 only - May 10 24:00 0 -
368- Rule Egypt 2018 only - Jun 14 24:00 1:00 S
369- Rule Egypt 2019 only - May 2 24:00 0 -
370- Rule Egypt 2019 only - Jun 6 24:00 1:00 S
371- Rule Egypt 2020 only - May 28 24:00 1:00 S
372- Rule Egypt 2021 only - May 13 24:00 1:00 S
373- Rule Egypt 2022 only - May 5 24:00 1:00 S
374- Rule Egypt 2023 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S
353+ Rule Egypt 2014 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
375354
376355# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
377356Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct
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