"Egypt will start its wintertime as of Friday, September 7," Cabinet Spokesman Magdi Radi announced Wednesday22/8/2007.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 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).



The date will change a little bit this year because of Ramadan, the Holy Muslims fasting month due to start Thursday, September 13.