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Not the worst example I've heard. In 2016 the Haitian president canceled daylight savings by decree two days before the changeover. I was flying out of the coun
by edbaskerville 4y ago
Not the worst example I've heard. In 2016 the Haitian president canceled daylight savings by decree two days before the changeover. I was flying out of the country the morning after the change, and had a really hard time explaining to airline customer service (who hadn't gotten the memo) what exactly the problem was.
"When does my flight leave?"
"At the scheduled time."
"According to what clock?"
"Huh?"
I just showed up an hour early.
- inciampati 4y agoAnd when did it depart?
- edbaskerville 4y agoI honestly don't remember!
- niko001 4y agoAt the scheduled time
- wging 4y agoMorocco did the same thing in 2018 - less than two days' notice. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45995634 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45995634
- petre 4y ago
- elashri 4y agoWhy would they change for Ramadan? the fasting times are determined by sun rise and set. It is not going to change and prayer times wouldn't be affected ( except the numerical shift of time only). The second part about arab world are not correct through. I grew up in Egypt which used to have daylight saving change but this ceased to happen from 2011 I think.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoLooks like fasting in public during Ramadan is mandated by law in Morocco from 9am - 3pm. Rather than change this law, they changed the clocks during Ramadan so people could legally eat an hour earlier in the evening.
- elashri 4y agoI don't know if there is a law saying that but I know that fasting in morocco is from ~ 5AM-7PM give or take. This is from sunrise to sunset.
- mapmeld 4y agoThe schedule of Ramadan (the Islamic calendar month) may be delayed or extended in countries which use a physical sighting of the crescent moon to end the month, and can even differ by country if they go to different astronomers. This wouldnt affect DST I think, but more the timezone info - database. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-islam-ramadan-idUSBRE86A0W920120711 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-islam-ramadan-idUS... https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/06/12/why-the-date-of-eid-is-up-for-debate https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/06/12/...
- spoonjim 4y agoSomewhat saved by the fact that the world pretty doesn’t pay much attention to what does or doesn’t happen in Haiti
- hiyer 4y agoWhich is unfortunate. More people should know about the atrocities heaped upon Haiti by the "civilized" French [1] and Americans [2]. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_...
- _nalply 4y agoHaha. My wife and I, we once had three switches to daylight saving time one spring. This was during a trip to the US. Once in NYC where we missed our train. Once in Arizona, we just arrived one hour "later" than planned. The last time after we returned to Switzerland. I missed an important meeting at my job still jetlagged. That was confusing as hell even without rule changes.