As you may know if you follow my blog, I previously wrote about the recent time zone chaos in Egypt [https://codeofmatt.com/2016/07/01/time-zone-chaos-inevitable-in-egypt/].  In this post I'd like to offer some guidance on what to do about it. On Microsoft Windows desktop or server operating systems,

I would like to give everyone a heads up about the situation in Egypt.  There is likely to be some confusion over the next week or so about what the local time is in Egypt, and it's entirely possible that the computers of the world may be erroneously blamed for

With only a week's notice, the government of Egypt has decided to go back to daylight saving time - effective today.  That's right, it was casually announced [http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/100735/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-government-to-reapply-daylight-saving-time-.aspx] on May 7th, and went into place at Midnight on