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Get ready to move the clocks forward at midnight on Friday, 25th of April. Clocks will move forward one hour to 1:00 AM and Daylight saving time will end on the last Thursday of October.
Daylight saving time 2025 is starting: Why did Daylight Saving Time start?
Benjamin Franklin, the founding father and inventor, first proposed daylight saving in 1784. It was seen as a cunning way to save on candles.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) - the process of moving clocks forward by one hour in the summer - was started in Germany in 1916.
During World War One it was a way to save energy resources such as coal, using fewer electric lights and less heating during the lighter evenings and being more productive.
Weeks after Germany introduced DST, other countries adopted the idea, including the UK, where it was named British Summer Time (BST).
During World War Two, the UK introduced British Double Summer Time when clocks were advanced two hours.
This meant that during winter, while clocks went back an hour, they were still one hour ahead of GMT to increase productivity during daylight.
When was daylight saving time first introduced in Egypt?
Daylight saving time was first introduced in 1945, during the government of Mahmoud Fahmy El-Nokrashy. It was established through Law No. 113 of 1945, in response to the economic hardships Egypt and the rest of the world faced during World War II, including a sharp rise in fuel prices.
The system remained in place until 1957, when a new law was issued to regulate the timing more precisely&mdash;setting daylight saving time from the beginning of May until the end of September.
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