Sunday, September 8, 2013

Israel does the time warp; daylight savings glitch wreaks havoc

<p>By the time Adi, an intern at Asaf HaRofeh Hospital's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, got into the car with her husband Sunday morning and saw the time, it was too late - an hour too late.</p><p>Like hundreds of thousands of Israelis who use their smart phones as alarm clocks, Adi and her husband's schedules were thrown into disarray Sunday when their phones' software turned their clocks back to end daylight savings time seven weeks too early.</p><p>For years, Israel turned back the extended summer clock the weekend before Yom Kippur in order to ease fasting and accommodate prayer times for the autumn. In July, the Knesset approved legislation postponing the change until October 27, in line with Europe. Google and Apple, apparently, missed the memo.</p><p>"I had to drop my husband off at work, which adds a half-hour to the commute, and the traffic is double if we're late," said Adi, who asked that her real name not be used. She ended up getting to work two hours late.</p><p><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-Features/Israel-does-the-time-warp-daylight-savings-glitch-wreaks-havoc-325560">Keep reading...</a></p>

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