Time
No daylight saving time in 2011 ... 2012????
The description on this page is accurate for normal years, but 2011 was not normal. Following a poll on the government's web site, the Egyptian interim cabinet decided that there would be no daylight saving time in 2011. This could be a permanent arrangement, but we can't really be certain until a permanent government is in place.
For the winter, Egypt is 2 hours ahead, but we will have to wait and see whether Egypt leave their clocks alone in the summer in which case it will be only one hour ahead.
Luxor standard time is 2 hours ahead of GMT in the winter.
In Egypt the clocks used to go forward on the last Friday in
April and go back again on the last Friday in September (but not in 2011 and we don't yet know about 2012. See box above).
Between those dates Egypt is normally 3 hours ahead of GMT.
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European Summer Time, otherwise known as Daylight Saving Time,
in Britain known as British Summer Time, starts on the last Sunday
in March and ends on last Sunday in October.
As the European clocks
go forward sooner, and go back later, than Egyptian clocks, there
are a few weeks at each end of the summer when the time difference
between British / European time and Egyptian time is one hour less
than usual.
For example, Egyptian time is 2 hours ahead of British time most
of the year, but between the last Sunday of March (when the British
clocks go forward) and the last Friday of April (when the Egyptian
clocks go forward), and again between the last Friday in September
(when the Egyptian clocks go back) and the last Sunday in October
(when the British clocks go back) the time difference
is only 1 hour.
As that all sounds a little complicated, there is an easy reference
chart below.
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