[nukkad] Sri Lanka coming back to IST

["Harshal Chhaya" <>]

An AFP article says:
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Sri Lanka will put the clock back by half an hour and revert to its
original time after a 10-year experiment that largely failed to save
energy.

President Mahinda Rajapakse ordered that Sri Lanka revert to its
original standard time, five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean
Time (GMT), which the country maintained till May 1996.

Faced with an electricity crisis in May 1996, the then-government
advanced the clock by an hour to extend daylight hours. In October
that year it brought it back by half an hour to put Sri Lanka six
hours ahead of GMT.

The island will now return to five and a half hours ahead of GMT and
be on the same time zone as its giant neighbour India.
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I find the idea of changing the time to suit our purposes pretty
interesting. The concept of
Daylight Saving Time, observed by many Western nations, which involves
changing the clocks twice a year is quite amusing. Add to that the
facts that different nations start and end DST at different times,
parts of some countries don't observe DST and the recent US law that
extends the DST by three weeks and you see some very interesting
things about humans trying to control time.

- Harshal


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