--- a/components/timezone/africa Thu Apr 16 11:08:39 2015 +0200
+++ b/components/timezone/africa Mon Apr 20 08:54:07 2015 -0700
@@ -319,13 +319,22 @@
# 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 - 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 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