Daylight savings time will come to an end before Yom Kippur, as is the case every year, to avoid a long fast day.
On motzei shabbos, 27 September (9 Tishrei), at 2:00am, we move our clocks back one hour to 1:00am.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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as is the case every year, to avoid a long fast day.
At the risk of asking a silly question… isn’t the fast the same length regardless of whether or not there is DST? It’s the same 25 hours or so, regardless of whether you decide to call the end “6 PM” or “7 PM.”
The Wolf
Yes, it IS the same 25 hours, BUT you don’t FEEL the tsar of the fast so much the first evening when Yom Kipur first starts, you FEEL it towards the end, and in Israel, it ends an hour EARLIER!
That’s 17 days ahead. Aren’t you letting us know a little bit too much in advance?
It is silly. Yom kippur starts so early that I’m hungry by the time I go to bed. And if yom kippur is at the beginning of the week, like it is this year, our body clocks are still on the old time, so we wake up extra early on yom kippur. The day is just as long.
A large percentage of people feel that the fast is easier if we return to standard time. The Rabbanim have, over the years, pressed for this. So if it makes people’s lives that much easier, why not accommodate them?