Here are the dates for Israel for 1999. The main changes are starting in 1999, the Friday morning changeover to DST will take place at 2 a.m. instead of midnight and the change back will also be on a Friday morning at 2 a.m. instead of Saturday night at midnight. The following are context diffs for the file 'asia' extracted from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1998i.tar.gz -----------------------------Begin Context Diff------------------------------ *** asia Thu Sep 24 16:46:09 1998 --- asia.new Mon Dec 28 12:26:31 1998 *************** *** 509,530 **** Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> ! # (1997-03-04 and 1998-03-16): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. ! # Each year they decide anew what havoc to wreak on the country. However, ! # there is a "supposed" set of rules which is subject to change depending ! # on the party the Minister of Interior, the size of the coalition ! # government, the phase of the moon and the direction of the wind. Hence, ! # changes may need to be made on a semi-annual basis. One thing is entrenched ! # in law, however: that there must be at least 150 days of daylight savings ! # time annually. Ever since 1993, the change to daylight savings time is ! # on a Thursday night from midnight IST to 1 a.m IDT. The change back to ! # standard time is on a Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time ! # to 11 p.m. standard time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the ! # change back to standard time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday ! # night to avoid conflicts with the Jewish New Year. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D --- 509,529 ---- Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> ! # (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16 and 1998-12-28): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. ! # One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150 ! # days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to ! # daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to ! # 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a ! # Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard ! # time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard ! # time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid ! # conflicts with the Jewish New Year. Starting in 1999, the change to ! # daylight savings time will still be on a Friday morning but from ! # 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time ! # will now also be on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D *************** *** 570,588 **** Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S ! # From Member of Knesset Avraham Poraz, as quoted in Ha'aretz (1998-09-02): ! # [The 1998-09-06 transition is to] serve the interests of a small minority ! # of ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Jews who, during the [Hebrew] month of Elul, ! # recite Slihot penitential prayers in the early morning hours ! # and thus find daylight time inconvenient. # From Paul Eggert (1998-01-12): ! # Here are guesses for rules after 1998. # They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S ! Rule Zion 1999 max - Mar Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 D ! Rule Zion 1999 max - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 --- 569,589 ---- Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S + Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D + Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S ! # Due to imminent elections in 1999, there are no dates for the year 2000 ! # and beyond. There was a move to legislate the DST rules in Israel, but ! # due to the government's fall, it most likely won't be brought to the Knesset ! # for first reading before the elections and will probably be altered by the ! # newly elected government. # From Paul Eggert (1998-01-12): ! # Here are guesses for rules after 1999. # They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S ! Rule Zion 2000 max - Mar Fri>=15 2:00 1:00 D ! Rule Zion 2000 max - Sep Fri>=1 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 ------------------------------End Context Diff------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CS System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-6585439 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il