Just how to calculate these 193 days, noone in the Interior Ministry (both the ministry's spokeswomen and the Knesset's interior committee office) could tell me.
Based on reports from various news agencies, it would seem that the intent is to start DST on the first Friday after the vernal equinox (March 21) until the first Sunday after October 1. In 2011, this gives 191 days of DST.
The proposal is beginning to become clearer: DST will start on the Friday before the last Sunday of March and will end on the first Sunday after October 1. If this Sunday falls on a Jewish holiday, DST will be extended until the morning after the holiday. Thus in 2012, DST would start on March 23 and, since October 7 falls in the middle of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, would end on October 9. I imagine that the proposal will be refined and revised before being tabled in the Knesset so I will report back when I get something in writing from the Ministry of Interior. ___________________________________________________________________________ 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