Jordan Will Keep Daylight Saving Time Mechanism Throughout The Year
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Sulaiman
- . October 5, 2022
- . Update: November 11, 2022 12:36 am
Clocks will no longer be moved ahead in Jordan; this has been decided by a government decision ending the decision to a new winter time. The Kingdom will now remain on its Greenwich Median Time of plus three hours. Authorities have now scrapped the measure of adding on one more hour in the winter months.
An official statement said that summertime, or daylight savings time, will now be “all year”. The debate to scrap the time saving mechanism has been ongoing since 2016.
In 2016, authorities debated scrapping the time change but decided against. They backed down, however, after a female university student was assaulted at a bus station in the city of Zarqa, to the east of Amman.
Critics said at the time that the early morning darkness encouraged the attack. It also creates disorientation and difficult in getting up in the mornings without daylight.
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The decision, reached after “comprehensive study”, makes “most use of the daytime” and makes it more convenient to “interact” with the rest of the world, the government said.
It added that 60 per cent of countries worldwide do not change their clocks at different times of year.
The government added that school classes from October 30 to April 2 will begin at 8.30am instead of between 7.30am and 8.00am so pupils will not go to school in darkness.
In addition, about 900 schools that give late classes with finish before sunset. The government also instructed universities to push back the times of morning courses.
