Summer Time is Over, Here

Sunday morning at 3 a.m., summer time (i.e. Daylight Saving Time) in Israel ended and we "fell back" an hour. This occurred four weeks before the United States ends DST. Thus, for four weeks, we're nine hours ahead of California, instead of ten hours ahead. Once DST ends in the U.S., we'll be back to being 10 hours ahead. Meanwhile, it's temporarily confusing.

The time traditionally changes in Israel between the new year, Rosh Hashana, and Yom Kippur. It helps to make the fast a bit more bearable because it "seems" to end a tad earlier since one is not yet used to the time change.

Nonetheless, starting our fast yesterday at 4:49 p.m. seemed exceptionally early but, then again, nightfall is now at 6 p.m. so we're more appropriately tied to the time that our longitude should be at (as we're close in time to the September equinox and on the equinox, sunrise should be at 6 a.m. and sunset should be at 6 p.m.).

But, there's one clock, our oven clock, that we can't figure out how to change the time on so it's already frustrating. I guess we're going to have to email our landlord and ask.