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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
World
Mia Alberti

After timezone fiasco, Lebanese ask for real change

A government decision to extend winter time, and a backlash against it from some quarters, resulted in two different times being used in Lebanon for a few days [File: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]

Beirut, Lebanon – Lebanon has shifted to daylight savings time a few days later than initially planned after a backlash to a controversial government decision left the country split between two different time zones.

Lebanon had been scheduled to make the shift last weekend, but a last-minute government decision extended winter time by approximately a month to avoid making the fasting day an hour longer for Muslims in Ramadan.

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