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diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/africa b/contrib/tzdata/africa index 1b9bf50..8b9ee61 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/africa +++ b/contrib/tzdata/africa @@ -319,13 +319,22 @@ Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 - # above) says DST had no affect on electricity consumption. There is # no information about when DST will end this fall. See: # http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/el-sissi-pushes-egyptians-line-23614833 -# + +# 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 +# Thursday of April.... Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but +# dates not yet announced.... +# http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ... +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html + +# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-08): # For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use -# 2010's rules, and guess that Egypt will switch to standard time at +# 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 -# the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3, with the results integrated +# 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. # (let ((islamic-year 1436)) @@ -357,7 +366,7 @@ 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 lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S +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 only - Jun 2 24:00 0 - @@ -371,7 +380,7 @@ Rule Egypt 2019 only - Jun 6 24:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 2020 only - May 28 24:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 2021 only - May 13 24:00 1:00 S Rule Egypt 2022 only - May 5 24:00 1:00 S -Rule Egypt 2023 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Egypt 2023 max - Apr lastThu 24:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct |
