Morocco to stay on summertime

[Tim Cullis]

Talk about making a decision at the last moment!

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/201...-citizens/amp/

I wonder if this is to do with the plan by the EU bureaucrats to abolish the twice annual clock changes. Under their plans each EU country would choose whether to be on permanent summertime (Junker’s preference) or wintertime.

However this proposal needs unanimous support from all EU members to come into being. In the early 1960s the U.K. experimented with keeping on summertime during the winter but it was seen as a huge problem in Scotland due to the late sunrise and was abandoned.

[Threewheelbonnie]

Good for them

On Monday night someone will have their day ruined, possibly worse because some idiot who didn't need lights to commute tonight will then. We are all going to spend time working out which clocks change themselves and which don't. Many of us are going to find ourselves with a sort of jet lag after we wake up at what our clocks say is 5, then not be able to sleep the next night because our bodies say its only 9.

Scottish school children travel in mummy's Rangerover which has lights and will also be struggling to be awake at the right time, their education suffering accordingly.

There is now less than 12 hours daylight per day. No amount of changing the numbers on the clock changes that.

Andy

[backofbeyond]

I’d be quite happy here to stay on summertime but I can understand those who live further north may not feel the same. Permanent summertime in Stockholm would mean mid winter sunset at lunchtime. Sleep in on a Saturday and you’d miss the daylight. I know it’s only shuffling the deckchairs but I wonder whether most people would prefer what daylight there is to be roughly symmetrical around the middle of the day.

[Tim Cullis]

Originally Posted by backofbeyond

Permanent summertime in Stockholm would mean mid winter sunset at lunchtime.

Wrong way round I’m afraid. The problem with permanent summertime in Scotland is that it would still be dark when school started.

[TheWarden]

Causing typical confusion here at the moment. Some locals changed their clocks yesterday, some today and some not at all.




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[Rafke]

Causing typical confusion here at the moment.

Indeed. The fact that phones of course did change the hour didn’t help.

School hours will change on november 7 and the government proposes new office hours for civil servants: 9:30 - 17:30.

More important for travellers: RAM announced that flights will be delayed by 1 hour. Imagine the scenes at airports if it were the other way round .

Word goes in some media that Renault is behind the decision, with their expansion plans in Morocco .

[PanEuropean]

I always thought that when you went to Morocco, you set your watch back 30 years.

Michael

[Chris Scott]

Must say I like it.
Better light for photos in the morning and an hour more daylight to get to where you're going at night.

[moggy 1968]

Belarus did it last year, so at this moment they are 3 hours ahead of us instead of the usual 2

[priffe]

Everyone in Morocco was unsure what time it was, and so were we. A week later we were still discussing whose phone was right

[TheWarden]

Apple devices had a time zone update after about a week


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[Tim Cullis]

I took some mates on a bike trip to Morocco in 2005 in the days before the country started changing clocks for summertime.

The sunrise/set hours in the UK at that time of year were about 0445 to 2130, but Spain is (a) further south, so about two hours less midsummer daylight, (b) is further west, so sunrise and set are later, and (c) is on Berlin time (thanks to Franco) so an hour ahead of the UK.

Thus the sunrise/set hours in Spain were about 0700 to 2145. When we crossed over to Morocco we went back to GMT and the hours were 0500 to 1945.

I wanted to get the guys on the road as early as possible so persuaded them to keep their watches on Spanish time for the morning start, so we could set off around 0800 (0600 in Morocco). But when working out when to stop for the evening we were looking at the Moroccan time.

It was then my mates realised I had invented the 26 hour day.

[markharf]

Originally Posted by Tim Cullis

It was then my mates realised I had invented the 26 hour day.

I'd pay amply--in untraceable hard currency hand-delivered on the tax-sheltered island of your choice--for a supply of 26 hour days. Just let me know your terms.

[FlyingWheel]

I remember reading in the local news that one of the reasons this happened is that Renault the french car maker -apparently an investor with significant clout there- had lobbied for the clock stuff to make logistics/work matters smoother between the two countries...

so the joke among the locals now is thank god it's not Toyota or Honda otherwise we would operating on japanese time haha!