From now on, Daylight Saving Time in the State of Israel will commence at 02:00 a.m. on the first Friday before April 2nd and will last until 02:00 a.m. on the first Sunday before the Jewish fast of Yom Kippur.
The proposed law amendment can be viewed (for those who read Hebrew) at: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps Note that although the wording of the law is not final, its intent is -- a free translation of the text would read: Every year, between the last Friday of the month of March, at 02:00, and the last Sunday before the tenth of [the Hebrew month of] Tishrei [i.e. the fast of Yom Kippur], at 02:00, the time in Israel will be made one hour earlier so that it will precede Coordinated Universal Time by three hours; in a year that the first of April falls on a Friday, the time will be made earlier, in the manner mentioned, in that year, on this day at 02:00. Attached to this message are the context diffs for "tzdata2005e/asia". I have also update the ZIC entry Emacs generator at: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el although it does not use year-range short-hand notation and produces explicit dates for each year. ___________________________________________________________________________ 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