Daylight Saving Time [Israel, random, lol, public post]
Today I found myself wanting to figure out when Israel's DST would end. {27/10, you Israelis you, turn your clock an hour back}
Finding it was easy enough, which was a surprise. I even had a chart of when the next years' DST would start and end! WOW! -- why am I surprised? Because until three years ago, every year was decided separately, and nobody really knew when it would start or end.
There is a funny story about the Daylight Saving Time in Israel that happened in 1999. It's so funny that it won the Darwin Award. Naturally, none of the involved survived it.
From Wikipedia:
"[...] In territories controlled by the Palestinian National Authority, DST ends later, which can lead to some confusion. On September 5, 1999, terrorists were transporting a bomb that they mistakenly thought was set to go off at 5:30 PM Israel Standard Time; it was actually set for 5:30 PM Palestinian Daylight Time, which was an hour ahead. As a result, the bomb went off while the bomb was still being transported, killing the terrorists (and earning them a Darwin Award)."
From the Darwin Awards site:
"5 September 1999, Jerusalem - In most parts of the world, the switch away from Daylight Saving Time proceeds smoothly. But the time change raised havoc with Palestinian terrorists this year.
Israel insisted on a premature switch from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time to accommodate a week of pre-sunrise prayers. Palestinians refused to live on "Zionist Time." Two weeks of scheduling havoc ensued. Nobody knew the "correct" time.
At precisely 5:30pm on Sunday, two coordinated car bombs exploded in different cities, killing three terrorists who were transporting the bombs. It was initially believed that the devices had been detonated prematurely by klutzy amateurs. A closer look revealed the truth behind the explosions.
The bombs had been prepared in a Palestine-controlled area, and set to detonate on Daylight Saving Time. But the confused drivers had already switched to Standard Time. When they picked up the bombs, they neglected to ask whose watch was used to set the timing mechanism. As a result, the cars were still en-route when the explosives detonated, delivering the terrorists to their untimely demises."
Only in Israel can something like this happen.
|Meduza|
Finding it was easy enough, which was a surprise. I even had a chart of when the next years' DST would start and end! WOW! -- why am I surprised? Because until three years ago, every year was decided separately, and nobody really knew when it would start or end.
There is a funny story about the Daylight Saving Time in Israel that happened in 1999. It's so funny that it won the Darwin Award. Naturally, none of the involved survived it.
From Wikipedia:
"[...] In territories controlled by the Palestinian National Authority, DST ends later, which can lead to some confusion. On September 5, 1999, terrorists were transporting a bomb that they mistakenly thought was set to go off at 5:30 PM Israel Standard Time; it was actually set for 5:30 PM Palestinian Daylight Time, which was an hour ahead. As a result, the bomb went off while the bomb was still being transported, killing the terrorists (and earning them a Darwin Award)."
From the Darwin Awards site:
"5 September 1999, Jerusalem - In most parts of the world, the switch away from Daylight Saving Time proceeds smoothly. But the time change raised havoc with Palestinian terrorists this year.
Israel insisted on a premature switch from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time to accommodate a week of pre-sunrise prayers. Palestinians refused to live on "Zionist Time." Two weeks of scheduling havoc ensued. Nobody knew the "correct" time.
At precisely 5:30pm on Sunday, two coordinated car bombs exploded in different cities, killing three terrorists who were transporting the bombs. It was initially believed that the devices had been detonated prematurely by klutzy amateurs. A closer look revealed the truth behind the explosions.
The bombs had been prepared in a Palestine-controlled area, and set to detonate on Daylight Saving Time. But the confused drivers had already switched to Standard Time. When they picked up the bombs, they neglected to ask whose watch was used to set the timing mechanism. As a result, the cars were still en-route when the explosives detonated, delivering the terrorists to their untimely demises."
Only in Israel can something like this happen.
|Meduza|