Israel Timezone -- Dates for 1999

[Ephraim Silverberg]

Here are the dates for Israel for 1999.

The main changes are starting in 1999, the Friday morning changeover to
DST will take place at 2 a.m. instead of midnight and the change back
will also be on a Friday morning at 2 a.m. instead of Saturday night at
midnight.

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

            ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1998i.tar.gz

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*** asia	Thu Sep 24 16:46:09 1998
--- asia.new	Mon Dec 28 12:26:31 1998
***************
*** 509,530 ****
  Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
  
  # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim at cs.huji.ac.il>
! # (1997-03-04 and 1998-03-16):
  
  # 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
--- 509,529 ----
  Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
  
  # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim at cs.huji.ac.il>
! # (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16 and 1998-12-28):
  
  # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of
  # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
! # One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150
! # days of daylight savings time annually.  From 1993-1998, the change to
! # daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to
! # 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was 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.  Starting in 1999, the change to
! # daylight savings time will still be on a Friday morning but from
! # 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time
! # will now also be on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST.
  
  # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
  Rule	Zion	1989	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
***************
*** 570,588 ****
  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 Member of Knesset Avraham Poraz, as quoted in Ha'aretz (1998-09-02):
! # [The 1998-09-06 transition is to] serve the interests of a small minority
! # of ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Jews who, during the [Hebrew] month of Elul,
! # recite Slihot penitential prayers in the early morning hours
! # and thus find daylight time inconvenient.
  
  # From Paul Eggert (1998-01-12):
! # Here are guesses for rules after 1998.
  # They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all.
  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
! Rule	Zion	1999	max	-	Mar	Fri>=15	0:00	1:00	D
! Rule	Zion	1999	max	-	Sep	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
  
  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
  Zone	Asia/Jerusalem	2:20:56 -	LMT	1880
--- 569,589 ----
  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
+ Rule	Zion	1999	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00	1:00	D
+ Rule	Zion	1999	only	-	Sep	 3	2:00	0	S
  
! # Due to imminent elections in 1999, there are no dates for the year 2000
! # and beyond.  There was a move to legislate the DST rules in Israel, but
! # due to the government's fall, it most likely won't be brought to the Knesset
! # for first reading before the elections and will probably be altered by the
! # newly elected government.
  
  # From Paul Eggert (1998-01-12):
! # Here are guesses for rules after 1999.
  # They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all.
  # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
! Rule	Zion	2000	max	-	Mar	Fri>=15	2:00	1:00	D
! Rule	Zion	2000	max	-	Sep	Fri>=1	2:00	0	S
  
  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
  Zone	Asia/Jerusalem	2:20:56 -	LMT	1880
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