Morocco abruptly drops clock change

Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by rossdavidh on Friday October 26, 2018 @07:37PM (#18313462)

The assertion that the countries which do not use DST are "mostly in Africa and Asia" is an odd way to put it. The countries that DO use DST are more of the exception now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#/media/Fi...

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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by bonzini on Saturday October 27, 2018 @06:34AM (#18315190)

Of course, DST doesn't make sense outside a relatively small range of latitudes (too close to the equator and all days are 12 hours anyway; too far and summer evenings last until 9pm-10pm even with solar time).

In Italy, for example, having DST means you avoid dawn at 4am in the summer (getting nice longer evenings in exchange) _and_ dawn at 8.30am in the winter.

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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by alexdumitru on Friday October 26, 2018 @09:52PM (#18313951)

Almost all of Europe will abolish DST this year.

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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by isostatic on Saturday October 27, 2018 @03:39AM (#18314740)

Very unlikely. Next year perhaps, seems a fairly popular proposal.

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Re:Morocco abruptly drops clock change by gsich on Saturday October 27, 2018 @02:21AM (#18314588)

Doubt. It will probably happen, but not that fast.

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