How did Jordanians react to the decision to install work in daylight saving time?

Written By طقس العرب on 2022/10/06

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

Arab Weather - As part of a series of analytical studies of widespread and common events and topics that are circulated by citizens, Makana 360 polling and marketing company (Makana 360) conducted an analytical study of the dialogues of Jordanian citizens on their pages on social networking sites and websites and their interaction on the recent Jordanian government decision to install Daylight saving time and not dividing the time between summer and winter, as about 150 thousand dialogue (post) and interaction (comment, like, share) were analyzed during the period between September 30 - October 6 2022

The main results of the analysis were as follows:

Jordanians' conversations focused on:

  1. Fear that the sun will rise before students go to schools and universities.
  2. Fear that the timing will affect the working hours of employees, especially those who have children of students or who come from different governorates
  3. Citizens questioned the feasibility of this decision and the desired benefit
  4. Feeling that this timing will affect public safety

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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