FW: proposed tz changes for Israel, Mexico, Simferopol, etc.

[Olson, Arthur David (NCI)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ephraim Silverberg [SMTP:ephraim at cs.huji.ac.il]
> Sent:	Sunday, July 30, 2000 3:13 AM
> To:	tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
> Cc:	Bill Tiede; Steve Mann
> Subject:	Re: proposed tz changes for Israel, Mexico, Simferopol, etc.
> 
> Bill Tiede <billt at isbister.com> writes:
> |
> | Regarding the DST rules for Israel, I have not been able to find any
> | corroborating evidence that this became official policy. The only story
> | in the online newspapers (Jerusalem Post for example) on the subject was
> | in early July 2000 which mentioned that the committee had made a
> | recommendation, but that the head of the Intertior Department disagreed
> | with the recommendation.
> 
> You are referring to the meeting of the Interior Ministry committee on
> July 5
> where then Minister of Interior Sharansky leaned towards his original end
> date of October 22nd.  Between July 5 and July 19 when the change to Oct.
> 6
> was passed in the Knesset, Minister Sharansky resigned (not because of DST
> ...)
> and joined the opposition hence making his opinion a lot less important.
> 
> As far as official confirmation, I included the URL to the law itself with
> all the 2000-2004 spelled out explicitly in the comments to the 'asia'
> file:
> 
>     # The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates
>     # for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at:
>     #
>     #       ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz
> 
> Steve Mann <smann at cdpubs.com> writes:
> >>
> >> Last week it was decided that the DST in Israel will be finished this
> year
> >> at  Oct 6. For the next 4 years the dates will be  beginning of 
> >> April until last week of Sept. (in special cases it can move to first 
> >> week of Oct.)
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure what he meant by the "beginning of April". If 
> > anyone wants to pursue details, I can provide email contact 
> > information privately.
> 
> I chose to include the URL of the actual law rather than the usual
> official
> announcement to the press since the official announcement only gave the
> end
> date for Oct. 6 and just mentioned that the other years had been changed
> (with a typo of 2003 in instead of 2004) without stating what the dates
> were.
> 
> I am attaching the announcement to the press of July 19 for all Hebrew
> readers
> in the list.
> __________________________________________________________________________
> _
> Ephraim Silverberg, CSE 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 cse.huji.ac.il <<Israel TZ Announcement (2000-2004)>> 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 2000-2004_press.ps
Type: application/postscript
Size: 490125 bytes
Desc: Israel TZ Announcement (2000-2004)
URL: <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/attachments/20000731/f216a6a9/attachment.ps>