Israel 2005-2007 -- Proposed Timezone Dates
Attached are the diffs to 'asia' in tzdata2004e.tar.gz for the proposed dates for the State of Israel for the years 2005-2007. However, I don't know if they should be incorporated in the global database just yet as they have a long legislative path to pass before getting passed into law especially, as noted in the comments, since the Minister of Interior's own government objects to these dates. Nevertheless, I am sending this to the forum since these are better than no dates at all. Furthermore, even though there are no proposed dates for 2008 and beyond, I changed the default guesses to follow the proposed 2005-2007 rules. ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, I wrote:
Attached are the diffs to 'asia' in tzdata2004e.tar.gz for the proposed dates for the State of Israel for the years 2005-2007.
However, I don't know if they should be incorporated in the global database just yet as they have a long legislative path to pass before getting passed into law especially, as noted in the comments, since the Minister of Interior's own government objects to these dates.
The plot thickens. On Tuesday night, the Prime Minister dismissed all the ministers of the Shinui faction of his coalition including the Minister of Interior. However, by law, the dismissal takes 48 hours to take effect and the outgoing Minister of Interior used his authority on Thursday (December 2nd) to set the dates from my previous message for the years 2005-2007 despite the fact that the dates had not yet been approved either by the Interior Committee or the Knesset. However, it is not clear that this authority is legally binding -- i.e. whether these dates will be entered into the "reshumot" (the State of Israel's official register). The secretariat of the Knesset Interior Committee is consulting with the Knesset's Legal Advisor, Anna Schneider, on this question and has offered to let me know when a decision is reached. Be aware, however, that even if these dates are deemed legal, whoever is the new Minister of Interior has the right to propose alternate dates before these dates take effect -- this has happened numerous times in the past and even when the outgoing and incoming ministers were from the same party (e.g. in 1995, when the cabinet was shuffled following the assassination of the late Prime Minister Rabin in November 1995). I will keep the list informed of any further developments. ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date about this. If I understand correctly, aside from comments the only change needed to the tz database should be the following, but of course this assumes the currently-proposed rules actually stick. I'll include this patch (along with your commentary) in my next proposed update. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/\S -Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2005 max - Mar lastFri 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct lastFri 2:00 0 S
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, I wrote:
On Tuesday night, the Prime Minister dismissed all the ministers of the Shinui faction of his coalition including the Minister of Interior. However, by law, the dismissal takes 48 hours to take effect and the outgoing Minister of Interior used his authority on Thursday (December 2nd) to set the dates from my previous message for the years 2005-2007 despite the fact that the dates had not yet been approved either by the Interior Committee or the Knesset.
However, it is not clear that this authority is legally binding -- i.e. whether these dates will be entered into the "reshumot" (the State of Israel's official register).
Israel's Attorney General ruled this afternoon that the former minister's declaration is not legally binding as it was not co-ordinated with the Interior Committee and has left the matter of DST dates for 2005-2007 for the next Minister of Interior who has not yet been appointed. Hence, there are no official dates for 2005 and beyond. I will update the list if and when there are new dates for 2005-2007. ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
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