Daylight savings?
I have heard from a friend that it often gets dark in Qatar at around 6pm even in Summer.I'm wondering if the government has ever considered, and if the people are interested in, Daylight Savings. Daylight Savings is when you move the clocks forward an hour or two, in order to extend the amount of daylight you get during the day, particulalry after work. Other countries have been doing it for many years now, and enjoy time with the family until 8pm at night when there is still light available to play outside and barbeque in. I live in Australia and we enjoy daylight from 6am until 9pm at night on the longest Summer days. How do people who live in Qatar feel about it?
I hate DST, anywhere....
you have 2 odd hours every year.
One day when it's midnight, and the clock just goes back for an hour, so you re-live that hour (you have two times where it's 11:30pm)...
The other day is the opposite, there is no 12:30, it just jumps from 12 to 1...
I prefer my time to be linear, with no time travel by legislation.
is basically adapted to conserve energy resources. Summer in Qatar have longer daylights. Perhaps in the far future Qatar will apply DST. :)
ah yea you just need to go out in the desert and come back the tell us was it enough good or not and gettin a perfect sun tan.
Not a lot of daylight, then...that's like our winter months here.
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In summer the sunrise is around 4am and in sunset is around 6:30pm
in winter sunrise is around 6am and sunset around 5pm.
I think I'll miss the sunlight when I come to Doha. In the summer, it gets light outside around 4am and starts getting dark after 10pm.
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I don't think you understand. The summers are not full of lazy, warm evenings. It's so hot at night you WANT that sun to go down. Doesn't seem to make it any cooler but it seems more tolerable. Let's just say that it doesn't go down under 40 C even at night in the summer here.
Mandi
I think it would be better if we just moved time zones to match Dubai!
Did you Google it first?
reality here is that government works 7 to 2 approx, so many qataris have time to visit their private business in the evening.
Sadly many people work a split shift typically 8-12 and 4-8pm. Small shops will work same system but go onto 10pm. Little benefit in the extra lighter evening hour for most.
Also day length here is shorter than OZ, max about 15 hours in June.
we can't have that extra hour of daylight...my curtains will fade!!!
haha I forgot that you guys have very hot weather, which is what I assume you mean, when you say its painful. But I love hot, hazy days, late at night when it's still warm and light and you can go down to the beach and have a barbeque and still have enough light to see.
What are you talking about? DST in Qatar. It doesn't make any sense! It is already painful to spend 12 hours of daytime here and you want to make it 13!