When does daylight saving time start in Jordan 2020?

Written By رزان خليل on 2020/03/23

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Arab Weather - Working daylight saving time in the Kingdom will return from midnight "Thursday / Friday", corresponding to March 28th, by presenting the clock with 60 minutes, so that the local time difference from Greenwich Mean Time in London will be 3+ hours while it was working during the winter time +2 hours.

 

What is daylight saving time:

It is the change of the official time in a country or a province. That is, when the official hours are reset at the beginning of spring, the clock is given by 60 minutes. As for the return to regular time, that is, winter time, it is done in the autumn season.

 

What is the goal of increasing the hour?

The goal of increasing an hour for official timing is to increase official working hours and other public events, to take advantage of more daylight hours that gradually increase from the beginning of spring to the height of summer and up to 14 hours during the summer, while the length of the night reaches approximately 10 hours, meaning that the difference between the number of hours of the night The day is about 4 hours, which is not a short time.

Also, the importance of working with daylight saving time in Jordan in particular and in other countries in general, especially non-oil producing, is due to the fact that it has great economic benefits. In these countries that are located in areas close to the orbits of cancer and Capricorn, the sun rises early during the summer and at about five o'clock in the morning, In order for factories, schools, and government departments to benefit from sunrise hours, it is therefore more beneficial to take advantage of these hours so that the time is presented at least one hour, and this means the start of work an hour before winter time, and work in summer time also leads to the end of work in most factories And uncle centers The other before sunset on the grounds that it is absent within seven o'clock and half the evening.

It also makes the citizen go to sleep early and not stay up long, and thus do not use lighting and electrical appliances for a long time during the night.

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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