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| Paintings by Tarek Chemaly |
Effectively, as if Lebanon had no issues, no points, no exploding financial system, no political conundrums, no inflation by the double digit, no acute poverty which is reaching a serious a part of the inhabitants, and so forth and so forth…. Why? As a result of we now have a serious squabble.
Introducing – or moderately not introducing – daylight saving time.
This is the dilemma – daylight saving time, which impacts routinely computer systems, cellphones, main digital machines that are linked to energy grids, the aviation trade and one million different sectors…. Goes to be postponed in Lebanon to permit Muslims to quick one hour much less until the top of the month of Ramadan.
Cue: Panic and dissidence.
Already two main tv stations – pro-Christians thoughts you – are usually not going to abide by the choice. A significant faculty determined to not abide both. Nonetheless Center East Airways will change the departure of its flights by one hour. The central financial institution shouldn’t be going to use the choice to its machines as a result of main sensitivity however will abide by the working hours associated to not making use of daylight saving.
If confused fear not, everybody else is.
At this level, other than the main points Lebanon faces, nobody is aware of if there may be or there may be not daylight saving time. Already the 2 corporations offering cellphone companies have despatched textual content messages to subscribers to place their cell telephones on handbook in the case of clocks to keep away from the automated flip. But, nobody understands how can this apply on main scales – I’m instructed somebody who’s an IT head in a serious firm and chargeable for 900 computer systems is dealing with an existential disaster as to what to do, or not do at this level.
Critically, this may have been humorous in different circumstances. Sadly, that is a type of situations the place spiritual sensitivities are stoked, and instantly everyone seems to be retracting to the trenches when the scenario is already tremendous delicate on all fronts.
However that is certainly Lebanon, the place every thing will get to turn into grotesque.
