Rabat - Morocco will put forward the clock one hour (GMT+1) on Sunday, July 19 at 02:00 a.m., Civil Service and Administration Modernization Ministry announced on Tuesday.
This decision is an implementation of the decision by the head of government N. 3-29-15 dated Shaaban 1436 (June 4, 2015), the ministry said in a statement.
Daylight saving time had been implemented since early April, but Moroccan authorities decided to go back to Morocco’s standard time GMT on June 14, few days before the beginning of Ramadan.
But the decision to switch to day saving time in the spring, witch back to standard time just before Ramadan, and again switch to daylight saving time after this holy month is not accepted by many Moroccans who view the decision as harmful to their wellbeing.
Last March, a group of Moroccans launched an online petition calling on the government to recant its decision to adopt daylight saving time.
The online petition argued that the decision has a negative impact on their health, it increases the risks of heart attack and causes sleeping disorders.
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