Bug 618597

Summary: DST changes in Egypt
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Martin Poole <mpoole>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Priority: urgent    
Version: 3.9CC: jakub, jan.kratochvil, mpoole, tao
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Fixed In Version: tzdata-2010k-1.el3 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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During Ramadan, that is, during the period between 2010-08-11 and 2010-09-08, Egypt will suspend DST. The DST period will be officially restored on 2010-09-09.
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Clone Of: 618593 Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-08-09 10:36:52 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 618593, 618599, 618600    
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Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2010-07-29 09:33:59 UTC
There is some disagreement on the exact date of the switchovers.

Comment 4 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-08-09 09:19:20 UTC
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
During Ramadan, that is, during the period between 2010-08-11 and 2010-09-08, Egypt will suspend DST. The DST period will be officially restored on 2010-09-09.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2010-08-09 10:36:52 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2010-0609.html