Daylight saving time in Asia

[1] Before the revolution in January 2011, the government was planning to take a decision to abolish summer time in 2011 before President Hosni Mubarak's term expires in September 2011.

Following the results, the government decided on 20 April to temporarily cancel summer time, to make the necessary amendment to the laws and asked the ministers to work on a study to determine the probability of applying DST in coming years or not.

On 24 October 2012, Jordan decided to continue observing daylight saving time for an entire year, ending in December 2013.

[11] Kazakhstan made a decision to stop observing summer time in 2005, citing health complications as well as lowered productivity and a lack of economic benefits.

On 28 March 2023, the Lebanese government reversed a decision to delay the shift to daylight saving time by a month.

The decision was reportedly to allow Muslim citizens to break their fasts earlier during the holy month of Ramadan.

As of 2024[update], the Philippines does not observe daylight saving time, although it was enforced for short periods during the presidencies of Manuel L. Quezon from 1936 to 1937, Ramon Magsaysay in 1954, Ferdinand Marcos in 1978, and Corazon Aquino in 1990.

[15] DST was primarily intended to alleviate energy crises by minimizing the number of hours needed for electric lighting, reducing the strain on the national power grid.

Since 1990, there were several proposals submitted to successive government administrations that sought to reintroduce DST: A decree of the Russian Provisional Government introduced summer time (Russian: летнее время) in Russia on 1 July 1917, and clocks moved one hour forward.

A decree of the Soviet government led to the abandonment of this system five months later: clocks moved one hour back again on 28 December.

The changeover dates in Russia were the same as for other European countries, but clocks were moved forward or back at 02:00 local time in all zones.

On 8 February 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced cancellation of biannual clock changes in Russia in favor of a permanent switch to summer time.

[26] During his 2012 election campaign, Vladimir Putin proposed re-introducing summer time, as some workers had complained about not seeing any daylight during the winter, since the sun had not risen when they went to work.