Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 21
Trend:
Clocks in Iran will be officially turned back by one hour at midnight on Friday, September 21, marking end of daylight savings.
The move will be done with the aim of readjusting to standard time after six months of practicing Daylight Saving Time (DST).
In 2007, Iran’s constitutional watchdog, the Guardian Council, approved a law to re-introduce daylight saving time, a measure scrapped by ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2006.
Iran had stopped putting the clocks forward since spring 2006 because, although it aims to save electricity by lengthening evening daylight by an hour, the government said there was no evidence to show it cut energy use.
DST is the convention of advancing clocks by one hour so that evenings include more hours of daylight.