The end of Daylight Savings Time is a time in the autumn when the clocks are turned back an hour in anticipation of the long winter nights.
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But a few clocks have changed the time regardless – causing bewilderment.
As the most of the north hemisphere sets clocks back an hour Sunday to mark the end of summer time, Turkey will wait until November. 8 due to the general election in a week’s time.
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 Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reported that the time change delay meant that Muslim prayer times on printed calendars would be rendered inaccurate, according to IBT.
The decision led to a few confusion as many electrical devices, including smart phones, automatically reset.
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.
“The hour hasn’t changed in Turkey, like it usually does at this time of year”, one British expat, who did not want to be named, said on Facebook.
“We’re on special “Erdogan time” as he decided not to implement daylight savings until after the election”. Today, October 26, many people in Turkey with the latest Apple, Android, and Windows devices woke up with their clocks an hour slower than the government’s.
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