There are rumours out regarding the plugs and sockets in Denmark and Israel.
---- Denmark ---
The Danish plug and socket system will be discontinued, beginning next year.
There are safety concerns regarding this. To an outsiders suprise, it is not that the earth pin is lost but that the fit of the Danish two-pin plug is such that it will disintegrate when removed from a shucko socket. (My theory is that the problem is that the pins are sleeved further than on sleeved two pin contour plugs. The "edge" in the pin surface therefore sticks to the socket cover in the Schuko. The europlug has thinner pins and doesn't suffer from this.)
And the earthing? Doesn't matter. The de-facto standard plug is already the schuko.
--- Israel ---
There is some information that the Israelis are working on a round pin design to replace their current standard with flattened pins. As I understand it, they will go for two standards: Something in the style of the European plugs for normal use and a version of the 15A BS546 standard for special uses. (To make it non-interchangeable)
[This message has been edited by C-H (edited 09-30-2005).]
