Morocco Maintains Year-Round Daylight Saving Time as Study Shows No Health Impact

According to the Delegate Minister in charge of Public Administration and Civil Service Reform, Mohamed Benabdelkader, the first results of a scientific study show that the adoption of daylight saving time throughout the year has no impact on health. The Minister was responding to a question asked in Parliament.

The full results should be published soon, the Minister promised. But it is already certain that the Kingdom will maintain this schedule throughout the year, despite an outcry from Moroccans, particularly on social networks.

To conduct this study (last year’s), according to the Minister, the Government relied on the Moroccan subsidiary of an international consulting firm. It includes Moroccan and international experts, the Minister had explained last November, following its final adoption.

It should be noted that Morocco continues to change the time once a year and only during Ramadan. The last change was last Sunday, which will disrupt the habits (and daily life) of Moroccans for a long time to come.