The annual tradition signals the start of shorter days and longer nights.
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Along with countries in the Eastern European Time (EET) zone such as Bulgaria, Lithuania and Ukraine, and countries elsewhere, Turkey had been expected to add an hour to Sunday at the end of daylight saving time.
It’s confusing. When do you exactly turn your clock?
The daylight will dwindle over the next two months as we head into winter.
Several online reports credit Benjamin Franklin for the idea of Daylight Saving Time in a 1784 essay called “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” when he jokingly wrote that people in Paris could save on candles by getting out of bed earlier.
As most already know, the word trick to remembering which way to turn the clock in the fall or spring is “fall back” and “spring forward”.
What is daylight saving time? In 2005, he signed the Energy Policy Act that started DST on the first Sunday in November.
Along with other countries, Turkey had been due to “fall back” an hour on Saturday at the end of summertime daylight saving.
Turkish citizens took to Twitter protesting this confusion with hashtag #saatkac or “what’s the time now?”, as it becomes a trending topic across the internet. The result has coined a popular term “Erdogan Time”.
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For the next two weeks, then, the country is on “Erdogan Time”, a national joke and a nod to president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s paternalistic reputation. Unfortunately, this decision in no way keeps the automatic clocks from going ahead and changing the hour.
