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@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 --
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