Morocco to Switch to Daylight Saving Time on April 6

This change, expected just after the end of the month of Ramadan, marks the return to the usual legal time (GMT+1) permanently adopted by Morocco since 2018. It is actually a matter of resetting the clocks in accordance with government decree no. 2.18.855, published on 16 Safar 1440 (corresponding to October 26, 2018). This text sets the country’s legal time at GMT+1 all year round.

However, this same decree provides for the possibility of temporarily returning to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) during the month of Ramadan. This is what had happened at the beginning of the holy month this year: on Sunday, February 23, at three o’clock in the morning, the clocks had been set back by sixty minutes.

This break in summer time has become a well-established habit for Moroccans every year during Ramadan, in order to take into account the specificities of this fasting month. However, it does not today have the unanimous support.