What time is it today? Are we saving daylight?

One of my two phones today reflected a timezone change, as it is set to West European Summer Time, which falls back one hour on Sunday the 27th.
However, we are in Morocco, not Western Europe. Reportedly, last year Morocco decided to spring ahead one hour in the summer, and stay that way (except for the Holy Month of Ramadan, but that's a different story!). So, during summertime we follow West European Summer Time; but in the fall, we are on West African Time? or is it Central European Time? Which name would our tourism & marketing department prefer to use?

There were rumors that Morocco would suddenly decide to fall back again, as had happened a few years ago -- but evidently not. Son Excellence Le Roi is apparently opting for stability. I agree, stability is better, where clocks are concerned. The E.U. has declared that every member nation should decide on its single timezone by next year. I'm sure that's one of the Brexiteers' cries "They're controlling our bloody clocks!"

U.S., just to be different, extends its Daylight Saving Time by one week in both directions. Barbara is now in Chicago on Central Daylight Time, thus will be suffering one extra hour of timezone change when she flies back to Morocco on the 6th!

My opinion about Daylight Savings Time? I believe the change itself causes more problem than it solves, with increased road accidents and mistakes on those two days of the year. Philosophically it also reminds us all how much we are controlled by arbitrary clock settings. Standard time zones themselves only started after some dramatic train crashes in New England. And Daylight Savings Time wreaks havoc with our sundial accuracy!

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