Daylight Saving Time to end Saturday night
Two hours after midnight Israel will wind back its clocks by an hour, giving us all an hour of extra sleep as Daylights Savings Time comes to an end – read what to do to make sure your phone doesn't roust you too early.
Extended Daylight Saving Times – or Israel Summer Clock as it is known in Hebrew – will come to an end Sunday 2 am, in which time clocks around the nation will be set an hour earlier, giving Israelis an extra hour of sleep.
The Summer Clock as it is known in Israel has been in effect for 212 days. According to a bill designated to regulate the issue – which is a controversial one in Israel, at time pitting secular Jews and the business community against the Orthodox – the next Summer Clock will commence at March 27th 2015.
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Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar, who passed the aforementioned bill which extended the summer clock, said this week that "we all enjoyed an extra hour of sunlight throughout October and the holiday season. Extending the Summer Clock is a move which has done outstandingly."
Changes to the clock's schedule have led to numerous problems for smart phones and tablets, who still go according to the previous schedule. For example, in September, numerous computers and phones jumped an hour back.
The clock glitch is caused by the fact that operating systems installed on older devices are still synchronized according to the latest date of the clock change that took place on the night of September 28. The problem affected all cellular companies in Israel and devices that run on computerized operating systems.
The solution was to set the phone on manual time mode according to Athens' time zone until October 26. However, a week later, many devices were once again affected by the bug, causing many to mistakenly believe that Daylight Savings Time had already started.
According to evaluations of an Interior Ministry-appointed committee from 2013, extending the Daylight Savings Time (DST) was expected to save the market NIS 300 million. Following the extension, the average duration of DST in Israel would be 211 days, as in European countries.
