[Bug 1219664] Re: Daylight saving time is Israel changed

[Assaf Shachar]

Hi elia, This is strange on ubuntu 13.04 the time zone data is updated
to the last change (before this one) as of march 2013:

~$ zdump -v -c 2014 Asia/Jerusalem | grep -i 2013
Asia/Jerusalem  Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 01:59:59 2013 IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
Asia/Jerusalem  Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 2013 UTC = Fri Mar 29 03:00:00 2013 IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct  5 22:59:59 2013 UTC = Sun Oct  6 01:59:59 2013 IDT isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
Asia/Jerusalem  Sat Oct  5 23:00:00 2013 UTC = Sun Oct  6 01:00:00 2013 IST isdst=0 gmtoff=7200

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to tzdata in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219664

Title:
  Daylight saving time is Israel changed

Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The definition of daylight saving time in Isreal has changed (yet
  again) to the following.

  Zion	>=2013	on	Mar Fri>=23	2:00	1:00
  Zion	>=2013	off	Oct lastSun	2:00	0

  This is a new law passed in 2013-07-08.

  References:
  http://home.tiscali.nl/~t876506/TZworld.html#mea
  http://ca.huji.ac.il/bf/IsraelDaylightSavingsTimeEffective20130708.pdf (Hebrew)
  http://ca.huji.ac.il/helpdesk/windows/clock.shtml#linux (Hebrew)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/1219664/+subscriptions