Lebanon's Daylight Saving Dispute Creates Timezone Confusion
Lebanon is experiencing confusion as people woke up in two different time zones due to a dispute between political and religious authorities over when clocks should go forward. Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced that daylight saving would begin at the end of Ramadan next month, allowing Muslims to break their daily fast earlier. However, Christian authorities said they would change the clocks on the last Sunday in March, as happens most years. The dispute illustrates deep divisions in a country where Christian and Muslim factions waged a civil war in the late 1970s and 1980s, and where political positions are shared between religious groups.