Time in Palestine
| Offset | Zone(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| UTC+2 | ||
| UTC+3 | ||
| UTC+3 | ||
| UTC+3:30 | Iran Standard Time | |
| UTC+4 | Gulf Standard Time |
The time zones in Palestine are Palestine Standard Time (PSST) (Arabic: توقيت فلسطين القياسي) (UTC+02:00) and Palestine Summer Time (PSDT) (Arabic: توقيت فلسطين الصيفي) (UTC+03:00).[1][2] Palestine first observed Daylight Saving Time in 1940. Palestine observed DST for 63 years between 1940 and 2025. The previous time with no Daylight Saving Time was 1983.[3] The Palestinian Government announces the dates for the start and end of summer time.[4] In 2020, they announced the end of summer time on 19 October, only 5 days before the change.[5]
Israeli settlements
[edit | edit source]The Israeli settlements on the West Bank adhere to Israel Standard Time, which switches to Israel Summer Time on a different date than Palestine switches to Palestine Summer Time. This creates a one-hour difference for a few days for different groups of people living in the same geographic area.[6]
IANA time zone database
[edit | edit source]In the IANA time zone database, Palestine is given two zone identifiers in the file zone.tab: Asia/Gaza serving the Gaza Strip; and Asia/Hebron serving West Bank. These zones use EET (normal) and EEST (summer daylight) for their time zone abbreviations.[7]
References
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- ^ Time in Palestine. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
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