
Morocco to Adjust Clocks for Ramadan: Time Change Expected in April
Moroccans will soon have to change the time. This should happen on the eve of Ramadan 2020 for a period of one month only.

Moroccans will soon have to change the time. This should happen on the eve of Ramadan 2020 for a period of one month only.

A little over a year after its adoption, Moroccans are haunted by the perverse effects of GMT+1.

The return to GMT time on smartphones and computers on Sunday, October 27, surprised Moroccans, especially those who had to go to work.

A few months after the announcement of Morocco’s definitive adoption of GMT+1, the first results of the impact study have just been unveiled and they would be positive.

Morocco will switch back to GMT+1 time starting this Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 2 a.m., the Ministry of Public Service and Modernization of Administration had announced a few weeks ago in a press release.

Long considered to be a period that combines fatigue and a drop in productivity, the holy month of Ramadan seems to bring more serenity to Moroccans at work. This is what a Rekrute survey has just revealed, in which 52% of Moroccan employees surveyed believe that Ramadan has no impact on their professional life.

The government intends to maintain the GMT +1 schedule throughout the year, despite popular protest, particularly from high school students.

As every Ramadan month, Morocco will return to GMT time from May 5 to June 8 next, the Ministry of Public Service Reform and Administration has just announced.

It is on Sunday, May 5, 2019 that Moroccans will, once again, have to adjust their clock for the occasion of Ramadan.

Despite the announcement of the end of the time change in Morocco since last October, many Moroccans did not know which clock to follow on Sunday morning when they woke up.

While the maintenance of summer time has not finished creating turmoil in Morocco, a bill has just been proposed by the PAM group with a view to the definitive return to legal time, i.e. GMT.