Egypt to use daylight saving time again in a bid to save energy

A digital clock [Carlos Lujan/Europa Press via Getty Images]

Egypt will again use daylight saving time this summer after a seven-year gap, the cabinet said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of government efforts to save energy, Reuters reports. Last year, the Egyptian government announced a raft of rules to reduce government and commercial energy use so that the country could export more natural gas, a key foreign currency earner. Changing the clocks "comes in light of global circumstances and economic shifts, as the government strives to rationalise energy usage," the cabinet said. The practice, which has been introduced and abolished at varying points in Egypt's history, was last used in 2014, and is seen by some as a relic of the country's previous regimes. Clocks will be […] Source

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