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Tourism: Key dates in September 2007

Egypt State Information Service

"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 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.

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