Changes in Israel's 1997 Daylight Savings Rules
Ephraim Silverberg
ephraim at cs.huji.ac.il
Tue Mar 4 07:18:56 UTC 1997
Yesterday, the Knesset (Israeli parliament) passed a law changing the
daylight savings changeover times for 1997 (a mere ten days from when the
old times were to take effect).
Attached is the new Zic file for Israel with the corrected 1997 times. For
now, the times for 1998 remain the same and there are no official times for
1999 and on. Please note that I have altered some of the comments as well.
The official announcement (in Hebrew) is in the gzipped postscript file:
ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997.ps.gz
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.
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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. The change to daylight savings time is from midnight IST
# to 1 a.m IDT (day of week varies in different years). 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, Haim Ramon. 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 years 1997 and 1998 can be viewed at:
#
# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997-1998.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 23 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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