Morocco Decides To Scrap Seasonal Time Changes (bbc.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Morocco has decided to scrap winter time and will instead keep its clocks at summer time, GMT+1, all year around. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the time measured on the Earth's zero degree line of longitude, or meridian. The announcement comes less than two days before the clocks would have gone back by one hour on Sunday. Avoiding the switch would save "an hour of natural light", Administrative Reform Minister Mohammed Ben Abdelkader told Maghreb Arabe Press. The north African nation joins a number of others, mainly in Africa and Asia, which do not use daylight saving.

Comments

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

[olsmeister]

I guess the closer you are to the equator, the less sense it makes.

Re:Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well obviously you're not selling GPS watches with hardcoded timezones, or having a videoconference scheduled with Moroccans that now falls outside of their work hours. Otherwise you'd give a damn.

The product in your first example is bad and no-one makes products like that.
The video conference example is also bad since not everyone changes to DST at the same time anyway and you already have that problem. It's just that it now becomes less of a problem.

Re:Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

[zdzichu]

They decided to cancel DST change a day before it was planned. Good luck getting your software updated to take into account new order.

Two days notice !

[Alain Williams]

With this little warning just consider the confusion that this will cause. Computer systems with time changes programmed in; transport crossing international boundaries, eg a plane will leave France and timetabled to arrive at a certain (local Moroccan) time; diaries printed months ago and already on sale, etc. Did the political muppets think about this ? For anything like this 18 months is needed.

Does anyone have a good argument

[haus]

i am hard pressed to think of any reason why we keep going through with this ritual. Pick a time and stick to it. If you have a specific need for daylight, schedule appropriately.

Re:Does anyone have a good argument

[haus]

Almost no one has a job need for daylight. The few that do will obviously base their work around that need.

If a farmer wants to harvest their crop starting at daybreak, they do not need a time change to help them figure out when the sun will rise.

Re: Does anyone have a good argument

[Kjella]

Yeah, who cares if their kids are waiting for the bus in pitch black? You idiot virgin.

Yes, it's a wonder people in Canada, northern Europe etc. survive when all our kids get eaten by a grue.