Turkey to implement daylight saving time year-round

[paul90]

Report today from Ankara:

"Turkey will continue to implement daylight saving time throughout the entire year.

According to a cabinet decision, published in the official gazette on Thursday, daylight saving time will be used every year and winter time will not be implemented.

Turkey moved to daylight saving time on March 27, 2016, at 3.00 a.m. local time (0100GMT) as clocks wind forward one hour.

Daylight saving time was going to end on Oct. 30, 2016. Clocks across the country would have been turned back one hour at 4:00 a.m. local time (0200GMT)."

[frontalman]

Now we'll find out whether TRNC is already part of Turkey or not!

(Would be great not having to mess about with the clocks twice a year)

[gates]

what a great bit of news instead of this stupid idea because of some bloke up in Scotland we all have to put our lights on 1hr earlier
It meant a great difference when they did it yrs ago in the uk how much more life we got out of it
you could in November still get in nine holes or if lucky around of golf and the weather seemed to change on the same the one that implements this i salut and say well done you are the green instead of every body moaning about the extra hour in bed for one day save you electric and wake up
Its a new dawn and lighter evenings
Great stuff a step in the right direction

[suecheshireuk]

Apparently the Turkish Cypriot coalition have decided to do the same, so the island will be on different time zones. Sorry, dont know how to do the link.

[Keithcaley]

Now we'll find out whether TRNC is already part of Turkey or not!

(Would be great not having to mess about with the clocks twice a year)

All well and good, but have you thought that if you regularly have reason to refer to UK time - either for contacting people / companies, then you will need to allow for the fact that at some times of the year (Summer) you will be two hours ahead of the UK, and at other times (Winter) you will be three hours ahead of the UK...

The need to use 'time-shifting' when watching TV will be even more apparent, although that won't help sports aficionados who like to watch all the action 'Live'

I suppose that we'll all get used to it, 'given time'

[suecheshireuk]

Goodness , forgot about the TV thing .

[Navek]

As far as TV is concerned, if you have an IPTV subscription,
most of the main BBC/ITV channels etc are on demand.
Which means you can watch them anytime after the program has ended.
We do this with most programs, the next day.
No need for late nights in front of the gogglebox
Plus an extra 150 hours extra (approximately) in the winter months, at night,
to sit in the sun, BBQ, walk the dog etc
Must be a great idea
Navek

[frontalman]

Now we'll find out whether TRNC is already part of Turkey or not!

(Would be great not having to mess about with the clocks twice a year)

All well and good, but have you thought that if you regularly have reason to refer to UK time - either for contacting people / companies, then you will need to allow for the fact that at some times of the year (Summer) you will be two hours ahead of the UK, and at other times (Winter) you will be three hours ahead of the UK...

The need to use 'time-shifting' when watching TV will be even more apparent, although that won't help sports aficionados who like to watch all the action 'Live'

I suppose that we'll all get used to it, 'given time'

You're right, Keith - all those midweek footie matches will now finish nearer one o'clock than 12, what a bummer! Thank God we've got catchup!

[frontalman]

Mind you, there's going to be a solution by the end of the year (the ink is on the paper and just waiting to be signed) according to Lurucinalli. So we'll only be inconvenienced until midnight on the 31st December

[Keithcaley]

Mind you, there's going to be a solution by the end of the year (the ink is on the paper and just waiting to be signed) according to Lurucinalli. So we'll only be inconvenienced until midnight on the 31st December

It's the way you tell 'em!

[brian24001]

I'm waiting to see the first 'missed my flight from LCA because of the time difference' post.

[waddo]

Nobody will miss LCA flights - Lurucinallis' direct flights to Ercan will be in by then and everyone will be friends again! I wonder if Noel Baba will be able to cope or will he just have to wait at the border for an hour before he crosses into the South?????

[paul90]

Now we'll find out whether TRNC is already part of Turkey or not!

(Would be great not having to mess about with the clocks twice a year)

Now that we know the TRNC will follow Turkey's lead do you think the TRNC "parliament" decided this for themselves or were instructed to do so by the "motherland"?

On the face of it, it doesn't seem a sensible decision at this point in the talks if you are trying to achieve a small, united island with a single federal government and two subsidiary parliaments (one in each state) that will now be in different time zones.
Can you imagine the situation in Nicosia, two time zones in one city?
Where will the federal parliament be? In a "timeless" neutral zone or what??

[frontalman]

I don't know if your question was directed at me, Paul, but I think the pro Turkish UBP headed coalition took an opportunity to make Mr Akinci's job more difficult. PM Ozgurgun is more hard line regarding the talks and cyprob in general, though I may be doing all of them a disservice. There will be advantages to not putting the clocks back, fuel savings as temperatures would drop at a later hour, an excuse to lay in bed a bit longer until it warms up a bit and benefits to tourism, which an extra hour of daylight will bring. The Russian planes have just started to return to Turkey, and this will help.

[waddo]

Don't worry, it will form part of the talks - the South will of course want their hour back again because the Turks stole it from them - it never ends but the idea of keeping the clocks the same throughout the year is a good one.

[paul90]

I don't know if your question was directed at me, Paul, but I think the pro Turkish UBP headed coalition took an opportunity to make Mr Akinci's job more difficult. PM Ozgurgun is more hard line regarding the talks and cyprob in general, though I may be doing all of them a disservice. There will be advantages to not putting the clocks back, fuel savings as temperatures would drop at a later hour, an excuse to lay in bed a bit longer until it warms up a bit and benefits to tourism, which an extra hour of daylight will bring. The Russian planes have just started to return to Turkey, and this will help.

Mark, My view also is " the pro Turkish UBP headed coalition took an opportunity to make Mr Akinci's job more difficult. PM Ozgurgun is more hard line regarding the talks and cyprob in general".

[wanderer]

On a couple of occasions we have flown back to the uk on the day time has changed but bot in TRNC & Turkey so by the time we got home we had no idea what time it was .All phones and watches different times some reset automatically and the hire car clock time was just wrong
So no change is good for me
Also all the timer devises that reset automatically to daylight saving nightmare

[come_on_aylin]

Surely you'll be an hour early for flights in ROC between end of October and end of March when TRNC will be 1 hour ahead. Only if you forget, of course. Must admit I thought it must be April fools day when I heard this.

[Belfast Belle]

It used to be that North Cyprus never put there clocks back or fwd, not so many years ago.

[suecheshireuk]

Surely you'll be an hour early for flights in ROC between end of October and end of March when TRNC will be 1 hour ahead. Only if you forget, of course. Must admit I thought it must be April fools day when I heard this.

Yes, that's right, so no missed flights, then back to normal in the summer.

[Ragged Robin]

Very good news for those if us stuck at home during the long lonely dark winter evenings, because we drive small cars and after dark and are blinded by oncoming over large vehicles with blinding headlights not to mention those who "tailgate"! Yipeee on more hour a day of freedom

"Daylight" saving was introduced in a different country and climate during a World War. Several people have suggested it is no longer appropriate , and with modern technology communication between different countries is far easier. Well done Turkey and TRNC - perhaps now the rest of the world will follow a good example and get into step,

[Deniz1]

Why not try night driving glasses they deflect the glare I think you can get them in Akay optics.

[Navek]

Which Country Has the Most Time Zones?

France has the most time zones with 12.
USA has 6. (I wonder how they manage? Flights/TV/The Last Bell )

Most countries, especially the smaller ones, have only one time zone.
There are 23 countries with at least two time zones
(plus Antarctica which has at least ten unofficial time zones).

https://www.geolounge.com/country-time-zones/

Navek

[Navek]

8 free Android apps that show multiple clocks on home screen...
(Never be too early @ Lca or Super Home Center )
http://webcazine.com/7907/8-free-androi ... me-screen/
Navek

[paul90]

I'll bet that Cyprus may become the only country where the capital city has two time zones.
If the green line/UN border zone is abolished in Nicosia how will we know where one ends and other begins?

[Kanonier]

There is one hours time difference between Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Two provinces which are next to each other - never been a problem as far as I know.

[jimm]

Australia has different time zones and between Victoria and South Australia it is only 1/2 hour

[waddo]

paul90, Probably because then both sides will be in the EU and as we all know - EU laws are EU laws and we will all obey them - the EU will dictate what time it is in both halves of the Island - maybe the EU will decide to scrap DST as well but then the South would never agree to that as it was originally a Turkish idea!!!

But its a good point so maybe we could have Nicosia as a third time zone to stop all the confusion - lol. Sounds like a real Cypriot answer to me.

[waddo]

Just noticed that I posted my last at 8:21 am but my computer clock tells me it is 09:18 now - what has happened to the time zones??????

[Ragged Robin]

There was a time (mid to late nineties) when North Cyprus put the clocks back and forward two weeks after the UK did. It made sense because of the difference in climate but was very confusing if one was travelling between the two at that time and went through three time changes! but we managed!

There was a time when a well known English language N.C newspaper announced that the summer time was going to change from town to town according to need - Girne for the benefit of tourists, GaziM for the dock traffic, Guzelyurt for the ripening of citrus fruit etc. We all gaped in horror at the thought of changing clocks during a short internal journey until we noticed that the date of publication was 1st April! It dont think CT has managed to be so really genuinely funny since!

Deniz 1. Thank you for your suggestion which I am sure was meant to be helpful but obviously no do not understand. I already spend more than I can afford at Akay on prescription glasses with light adjustable lenses for driving and they are suppose also to help combat glare I also have ordinary sunglasses for most activities and reading specs for very small print. It is difficult expensive and confusing enough. I dont really feel I can spend more time and money to cope with the rather selfish and sometimes bullying behavior of others. However no type of glasses would. cope with a car filled with light because the unnecessarily large vehicle behind is driving too close and destroyingthe drivers night vision on a narrow village lane without pavement where pedestrians frequently walk. Nor the blinding light beamed straight into one's eyes by the same kind of vehicle with badly adjusted healights coming theopposite way up or down a hill.

These vehicles are not really suitable for our roads, but if youMUST drive them may I take the opportunity to go very sligthly off topic by appealing yet again for four wheel drive owners to have their headlights adjusted before winter, dip the in the face on oncoming traffic and not drive fast through villages.