Hi,
I'd like to comment on few points that were raised throughout this thread:
- Prayer times are not used by any means to identify events such as daylight saving changes, nor any event other than prayers ( same for Arab Muslims & non Arab Muslims)
- Online calendars & prayer times charts (such as islamicfinder.org) relies on accuracy of tzinfo data on their server. so we can not rely on them to figure out DST
- The day light saving is underestimated by the government, thus the cabinet did not maintain certain pattern in deciding the change time
- The decree wording was loose and should have been revised before publishing.
- The cabinet was too late (again) in announcing their decision on time change
- Gaza & Hebron (Gaza strip & Westbank) are both within the state of Palestine thus any time change should be applied to both.
AFAIK there are efforts within the government to standardize the daylight saving decision, hopefully to get there soon
BR
Sharef Mustafa