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Egypt changes clocks for 4th time in 5 months

By Washington Examiner
Published September 26, 2014 12:01pm ET
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Egypt changes clocks for 4th time in 5 months
FILE - In this Monday, March 25, 2013 file photo, Egyptians walk in front of an advertisement for a watch in Cairo, Egypt. On midnight Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, Egypt rolled back clocks one hour for the end of daylight savings time in the fourth time change in less than five months. Egypt is now two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. In May the government moved clocks ahead one hour as a power-saving measure. It then switched clocks for the start and end of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, which this year fell in the scorching months of June and July. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File) | Amr Nabil

CAIRO (AP) — For the fourth time in less than five months the clocks have changed in Egypt.

The switch between summer and winter time was abandoned after the 2011 uprising toppled long-ruling autocrat Hosni Mubarak, but then was abruptly revived this past May, when clocks sprung forward in a move aimed at alleviating rolling power blackouts.

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