Clocks don't go back in Turkey this year
Oct 30, 2016, 11:06 pm
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Clocks don't go back in Turkey this year
Yes Turkey is now 3 hours ahead of UTC (instead of 2) and will remain so until March when in most other countries the clocks go forward.
Government believes it will save $800m due to the lighter evenings.
Bloody confusing though.
Government believes it will save $800m due to the lighter evenings.
Bloody confusing though.
Oct 31, 2016, 4:11 am
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Yep, one can think of the time change what one wants, but it does not make sense for one country to do it differently than all the others. OTOH, Turkey seems to have given up ambitions to join the EU anyway, therefore they appear to see fewer benefits in standardization.
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Oct 31, 2016, 4:22 am
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Apparently a while ago Turkey considered setting up it's own time zone 2.5 hours ahead of UTC, so yes there is a history of thinking out of the box.
Nov 1, 2016, 12:32 pm
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Iceland doesn't do DST. It's not part of the EU, but it's part of various European arrangements that have it integrated more closely with the European Union than is likely to happen with Turkey.
Nov 3, 2016, 8:40 am
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When the shortest day starts at 1130 and ends at 1530, and the longest day starts at 0300 and ends at 2400, moving 1 hour either way doesn't really make much of a difference...
Nov 3, 2016, 2:39 pm
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Doesn't Greenland change time? Norway, Sweden and Finland do, and I don't find the extremes in Iceland as bad as in parts of continental Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Nov 4, 2016, 5:21 pm
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The TRNC also did not set their clocks back this year (in conjunction with Turkey). So now the Island of Cyprus is divided by a time zone in addition to politics/government. So far it is a bit of a pain. I would prefer that the ROC not set our clocks back too but it is what it is.
Nov 5, 2016, 12:22 pm
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The TRNC also did not set their clocks back this year (in conjunction with Turkey). So now the Island of Cyprus is divided by a time zone in addition to politics/government. So far it is a bit of a pain. I would prefer that the ROC not set our clocks back too but it is what it is.
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Oct 17, 2017, 3:24 pm
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Looks like the TRNC is going to set their clocks back when European Sumertime ends this year, so the entire island of Cyprus will be on the same time this year.
Cyprus to Remain United in Time
Cyprus to Remain United in Time