[tz] Will Morocco switch from +01 to +00 during Ramadan next year?

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Nov 1 17:52:07 UTC 2018


Maamar Abdelkader wrote:

> The 2019 Ramadan period is supposed to be from May 5th to June 4th.
> We usually move clocks back the previous week end and come back to the +1 the week end after.
> So it supposed to be sunday april 28 and sunday june 12.
> 
> The government does not announce yet the decision about this temporarily change.
> 
> But it s 99% sure that it will be the case, as the previous years.
> 
> A non official survey was done these days, showing that 64% of asked peopke are ok for moving from +1 to +0  during Ramadan.
> 
> https://leconomiste.com/article/1035870-enquete-l-economiste-sunergia-64-des-marocains-plebiscitent-le-gmt-pendant-ramadan
> 
> I will share the official decision once it s published.

Thanks for the info. I installed the attached patches into the 
development version on GitHub to implement this. This patch doesn't 
exactly agree with the dates you specified (for 2019 it guesses falling 
back Sunday, May 5 and springing forward Sunday, June 9), but these 
dates are approximate until an official announcement and a methodical 
guess is better than no guess at all.

Java users, please note that this patch uses negative DST in the main 
and vanguard formats; in rearguard format Morocco stays in the +00 
timezone (instead of moving to +01 last weekend) and observes positive 
DST in every month but Ramadan.
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