Changes in Israel's 1997 Daylight Savings Rules (CORRECTION!)
Ephraim Silverberg
ephraim at cs.huji.ac.il
Tue Mar 4 10:37:56 UTC 1997
> An article from the English-language Jerusalem Post of late January explains
> the rational for the change and can be found in:
>
> ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/users/ephraim/tz/timezone97.ps.gz
>
> Please note that the starting time mentioned in the English-language article
> is NOT the time that was finally decided upon by the Knesset.
The ZIC file I included in my previous message contained the proposed times
(and comments) NOT the real times. Attached is the true ZIC file.
10**6 apologies.
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Ephraim Silverberg, CS System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-6585439
WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim at cs.huji.ac.il
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# Zone Information Compiler (ZIC) File for the State of Israel (1989-2009)
# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of
# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
# Each year they decide anew what havoc to wreak on the country. However,
# there is a "supposed" set of rules which is subject to change depending
# on the party the Minister of Interior, the size of the coalition
# government, the phase of the moon and the direction of the wind. Hence,
# changes may need to be made on a semi-annual basis. One thing is entrenched
# in law, however: that there must be at least 150 days of daylight savings
# time annually. Ever since 1993, the change to daylight savings time is
# on a Thursday night from midnight IST to 1 a.m IDT. The change back to
# standard time is on a Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time
# to 11 p.m. standard time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the
# change back to standard time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday
# night to avoid conflicts with the Jewish New Year.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0:00 S
# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the
# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by
# calling her office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0:00 S
# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
# time, Mr. 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
Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1998 only - Oct 18 0:00 0:00 S
# These rules are probably wrong, but they are close approximations (usually
# within a few weeks):
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 11 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 5 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2000 only - Sep 24 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 9 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2002 only - Apr 7 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2002 only - Sep 1 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2003 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2003 only - Sep 21 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 12 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2005 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2005 only - Sep 25 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2006 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2006 only - Sep 17 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2007 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2007 only - Sep 9 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2008 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0:00 S
Rule Zion 2009 only - Apr 19 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 2009 only - Sep 13 0:00 0:00 S
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Israel 2:00 Zion I%sT
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