Israel Timezone -- Tentative Dates for 1998

[Ephraim Silverberg]

Here are the tentative (subject to final parliamentary approval) dates for the
State of Israel for the year 1998.

The following are context diffs for the file 'asia' extracted from

        ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1997k.tar.gz

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*** asia.orig   Mon Dec 29 16:53:41 1997
--- asia    Wed Dec 31 13:24:50 1997
***************
*** 547,562 ****
  
  # The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
  # time, Haim Ramon.  The official announcement regarding 1996-1998
! # (with the dates for 1997 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at:
  #
  #   ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz
  #
! # The dates for 1997 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa.
! # No changes have been made regarding 1998 as of yet.
! #
  # The official announcement for the year 1997 can be viewed at:
  #
  #   ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997.ps.gz
  
  # Rule    NAME    FROM    TO  TYPE    IN  ON  AT  SAVE    LETTER/S
  Rule  Zion    1996    only    -   Mar 15  0:00    1:00    D
--- 547,564 ----
  
  # The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
  # time, Haim Ramon.  The official announcement regarding 1996-1998
! # (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at:
  #
  #   ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz
  #
! # The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa.
  # The official announcement for the year 1997 can be viewed at:
  #
  #   ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997.ps.gz
+ #
+ # According to the Office of the Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Interior,
+ # the dates for 1998 are tentative and are still subject to final approval
+ # (probably in late February/early March of 1998).
  
  # Rule    NAME    FROM    TO  TYPE    IN  ON  AT  SAVE    LETTER/S
  Rule  Zion    1996    only    -   Mar 15  0:00    1:00    D
***************
*** 564,570 ****
  Rule  Zion    1997    only    -   Mar 21  0:00    1:00    D
  Rule  Zion    1997    only    -   Sep 14  0:00    0   S
  Rule  Zion    1998    only    -   Mar 20  0:00    1:00    D
! Rule  Zion    1998    only    -   Oct 18  0:00    0   S
  
  # From Paul Eggert (1997-03-15):
  # Here are guesses for rules after 1998.
--- 566,572 ----
  Rule  Zion    1997    only    -   Mar 21  0:00    1:00    D
  Rule  Zion    1997    only    -   Sep 14  0:00    0   S
  Rule  Zion    1998    only    -   Mar 20  0:00    1:00    D
! Rule  Zion    1998    only    -   Sep  6  0:00    0   S
  
  # From Paul Eggert (1997-03-15):
  # Here are guesses for rules after 1998.
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If there are any changes or when final approval is obtained, I'll inform
the 'tz' list.
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Ephraim Silverberg, CS System Group,          Phone number:   972-2-6585521
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.         Fax number:     972-2-6585439
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