On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, I wrote:
this is the last legislated changeover date -- there are no official dates for 2005 and beyond.
The latest rumour, however, is that in 2005, when the clock changes to Dayligh Saving Time (date as yet unknown), the move will be a two-hour leap forward (from UTC+0200 to UTC+0400) and then, in the fall, the clock will move back only an hour to UTC+0300 thus effectively moving Israel's timezone from UTC+0200 to UTC+0300.
Even though the draft law for the above did pass the Ministerial Committee for Legislative Matters three months ago, it was voted down in today's Cabinet meeting. The current suggestion is to keep the current timezone at UTC+0200 but have an extended period of Daylight Saving Time (UTC+0300) from the beginning of Passover holiday in the spring to after the Tabernacle holiday in the fall (i.e. the dates of which are governed by the Hebrew calendar but this means at least 184 days of DST). However, this is only a suggestion that was raised in today's cabinet meeting and has not yet been drafted. Will update if anything concrete comes out of the new suggestion though I have the feeling that the issue will undergo quite a few more metamorphoses until the actual enactment of Daylight Saving Time in 2005. ___________________________________________________________________________ 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