The Minister of Interior has announced his intention to amend the law regarding Daylight Saving Time in Israel so that the annual extent of Daylight Saving Time would be 193 days: http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=223809 Just how to calculate these 193 days, noone in the Interior Ministry (both the ministry's spokeswomen and the Knesset's interior committee office) could tell me. Based on reports from various news agencies, it would seem that the intent is to start DST on the first Friday after the vernal equinox (March 21) until the first Sunday after October 1. In 2011, this gives 191 days of DST. The office of the Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Interior said that since the change requires amending the law, when the actual proposal is put in front of the Knesset for first reading, they will be able to supply me with the exact dates proposed. In any case, it does not seem that this year will be affected as the end of DST was anyway scheduled for the night between Oct.1 and Oct. 2. This is good news since it will give vendors and computer installations until March 2012 to update their various O/S's. Once I get something official from the Ministry of Interior, I will pass it onto the list. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-5617723 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim@cse.huji.ac.il