Winter time starts Sept 7. "Egypt will start its wintertime as of Friday, September 7," Cabinet Spokesman Magdi Radi announced Wednesday 22/8/2007. This means that Egyptians will set their clocks one hour backward.
Egypt operates Daylight-Saving Time between the last Friday in April and the last Thursday in September when the clocks are a 3 hours ahead of UTC. The date will change a little bit this year because of Ramadan, the Holy Muslims fasting month due to start Thursday, September 13. (http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Miscellaneous Aug 23) Der Egypt State Information Service <http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Miscellaneous/000002/0207000000000000001580.htm> meldet am 23. August 2007, dass der Sprecher des Kabinetts den Beginn der Winterzeit fuer Freitag den 7. September 2007 angekuendigt hat. Aegypten hat in der Regel eine Sommerzeit (Daylight Saving Time) vom letzten Freitag im April bis zum letzten Donnerstag im September. Dieses Jahr wird das Ende der Sommerzeit vorgezogen, da die Fastenzeit (Ramadan) vermutlich am 13. September beginnt. (Michael Wlochinski-D, A-DX Aug 26) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
