The Wikipedia article on Israeli DST has a good discussion on why this is:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Summer_Time">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Summer_Time</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Since 2005, the end of DST is determined by the Jewish lunar religious calendar, so I&#39;m not sure if this can be accommodated by tz automatically.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Scott<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Vilas Khare (vkhare) <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:vkhare@cisco.com">vkhare@cisco.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
For Asia/Jerusalem (URL below) time zone -- DST begin date seems to be<br>
consistently on the &#39;First Friday&#39; following March 26th every year.   If<br>
March 26 falls on Friday then DST begins on that Friday.   But I fail to<br>
see any pattern in DST end date.   Currently, we have been defining new<br>
time zone rule every year for Asia/Jerusalem in our metadata but want to<br>
know if we can fit in some generic pattern to avoid maintenance.<br>
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<a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=110" target="_blank">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=110</a><br>
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Any suggestions ?<br>
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Vilas<br>
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