Timezone for Asia/Jerusalem

[Scott Atwood]

The Wikipedia article on Israeli DST has a good discussion on why this is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Summer_Time

To summarize, between 1992 and 2005, the start of DST was set by law, but
the end of DST was ad hoc, at the whim of a government minister.

Since 2005, the end of DST is determined by the Jewish lunar religious
calendar, so I'm not sure if this can be accommodated by tz automatically.

-Scott

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Vilas Khare (vkhare) <vkhare at cisco.com>wrote:

> For Asia/Jerusalem (URL below) time zone -- DST begin date seems to be
> consistently on the 'First Friday' following March 26th every year.   If
> March 26 falls on Friday then DST begins on that Friday.   But I fail to
> see any pattern in DST end date.   Currently, we have been defining new
> time zone rule every year for Asia/Jerusalem in our metadata but want to
> know if we can fit in some generic pattern to avoid maintenance.
>
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=110
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> Vilas
> --
>
>


-- 
Scott Atwood

The hill isn't in the way, it is the way.
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