--- a/components/timezone/africa Thu Apr 16 04:52:37 2015 -0700
+++ b/components/timezone/africa Thu May 07 05:54:24 2015 -0700
@@ -328,35 +328,20 @@
# 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
-# 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 24.4, 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))
-# (while (< islamic-year 1460)
-# (let ((a (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year)))
-# (b (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year)))
-# (friday 5))
-# (while (/= friday (mod a 7))
-# (setq a (1- a)))
-# (while (/= friday (mod b 7))
-# (setq b (1+ b)))
-# (setq a (1- a))
-# (setq b (1- b))
-# (setq a (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute a))
-# (setq b (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute b))
-# (insert
-# (format
-# (concat "Rule\tEgypt\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t24:00\t0\t-\n"
-# "Rule\tEgypt\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t24:00\t1:00\tS\n")
-# (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a))
-# (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b)))))
-# (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year))))
+# From Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20):
+# Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced ... that it will cancel DST at
+# least for 2015.
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2015-04-20):
+# http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx
+# "Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving
+# time this summer, and carry out studies on the possibility of canceling the
+# practice altogether in future years."
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-20):
+# For now, assume DST will be canceled. Any resumption would likely
+# use different rules anyway.
+
Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 24:00 0 -
Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 24:00 0 -
Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 10 24:00 0 -
@@ -365,22 +350,7 @@
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 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 -
-Rule Egypt 2016 only - Jul 7 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2017 only - May 25 24:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2017 only - Jun 29 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2018 only - May 10 24:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2018 only - Jun 14 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2019 only - May 2 24:00 0 -
-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 lastThu 24:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 2014 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct