{"id":65036,"date":"2023-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/65036\/lebanon-postpones-daylight-savings-time"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:55:51","slug":"lebanon-postpones-daylight-savings-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/65036\/lebanon-postpones-daylight-savings-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Postpones Daylight Savings Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On today\u2019s episode of absurd news in Lebanon, the Government Commissioner of the Council of Ministers just announced that daylight savings is going to be postponed a whole month&#8230;no, this is not a joke.<\/p>   <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Plz tell me this is a joke. <br><br>Also what happens to our phones and computers etc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EfoFFaXaHX\">pic.twitter.com\/EfoFFaXaHX<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Ink On The Side (@sareen_ak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sareen_ak\/status\/1638877285926199297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>   <p>Instead of daylight saving time starting on Sunday, March 26th, 2023, it will exceptionally start on Thursday, April 20th, 2023. Did you know that they could do that? We didn\u2019t.<\/p> <p>Does this mean we&#8217;ll be spending the rest of the month confused every time show up early to work? Do we reset the clock on our phones\/laptops\/etc. until it&#8217;s time for Lebanese daylight savings in April? 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