Monday, October 28, 2013
Daylight savings time ends Saturday night in Israel
Israel will switch to standard time at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, after daylight savings time was extended by 3 weeks. Clocks go back an hour at 2 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Instead of moving clocks back on October 6, Israel waited until the end of the month to do so after Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar agreed to extend daylight savings time by three weeks.
“I announced when I set up the committee that the objective was to find the best arrangement for the citizens of Israel,” Sa’ar said at a press conference. “After checking the committee’s work and its recommendations I decided to change the status quo.”
On October 6, Israelis who fought for years to have daylight savings time substantially extended found that their phones and computers ignored new state directives and sent their clocks an hour back overnight.
Many mobile phones were already programmed to expect the clock change to go ahead over last weekend and were not able to readjust for the later, October end to daylight savings. The bug affected some Google phones, iPhones, Android and iOS software, BlackBerrys and Symbian phones.
Local cellphone providers tried to preempt the problem by sending text messages to their users last week advising to set their phones to Athens time, which also has October 27 as the start of winter time.
The thorny issue of when and how to implement daylight saving time was the focus of a special committee appointed by Sa’ar (Likud) in April.
Headed by Shmuel Abuav, a former Construction Ministry director general and head of the Or Yarok (“Green Light” in Hebrew) road safety organization, the committee examined the current daylight saving time policy and its impact on road safety, energy consumption and the economy.
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