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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.

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  1. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. by olsmeister · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  2. Does anyone have a good argument by haus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Does anyone have a good argument by haus · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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.

    2. Re: Does anyone have a good argument by Kjella · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

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