On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Rives McDow wrote:

Do you have any additional information about the daylight savings changes in Israel for 2003?

Minister of Interior Poraz has announced that he will respect the law passed in July 2000 (proposed at the time jointly by himself and then-MK David Azulai [Shas]) fixing the dates for 2000-2004. Hence, the dates for 2003 and 2004 remain unchanged: Year Start End ---- ----- --- 2003 Mar. 28 Oct. 3 2004 Apr. 7 Sep. 22 Where the start/end takes place at 1 AM old time (i.e. 1 a.m. IST => 2 a.m. IDT and 1 a.m. IDT => midnight IST). Timezone files for Israel can be found at: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/israel/ As far as 2005 and beyond, no dates have been set. However, the minister has mentioned that he wishes to propose to move Israel's timezone in 2005 from GMT+2 to GMT+3 and upon that have DST during the summer months (i.e. GMT+4). However, no legislation in this direction is expected until the latter part of 2004 which is a long time off in terms of Israeli politics. ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-6757244 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim@cse.huji.ac.il