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Daylight Savings Time Period to be Standardized

by Eliezer Rauchberger

The Knesset Interior Affairs Committee will appeal to the High Court to request additional time in which to reach agreement on a standard yearly date on which to end Daylight Savings Time.

Recently, individuals appealed to the High Court regarding the Daylight Saving Time dates which are set very late this year and for the next three years. In each case, the standard time ("winter clock") is due to take effect on the day after the end of Succos.

In the wake of this appeal, the Knesset Interior Affairs Committee met to discuss the dates. Chairman of the committee, MK David Azoulai (Shas) appointed a committee of Knesset members to reach an understanding regarding the dates. Azoulai himself is a member of the committee as are MK Rabbi Yaakov Litzman and MK Avraham Poraz.

The committee seems to be poised to agree to end Daylight Savings Time on a permanent basis on September 30. However, in years in which Yom Kippur falls after this date, Daylight Savings Time will end on erev Yom Kippur.

The main argument given is that Standard Time makes it easier to fast on Yom Kippur. The change would already go into effect this autumn.

The current schedule for DST for 2000 and 2001 is: DST ends on October 2, 2000; DST begins on April 6, 2001; DST ends on October 10, 2001.


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