Vice Speaker Alen Simonyan seeks to introduce daylight saving time in Armenia

16:39, 22 November, 2019

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 22, ARMENPRESS. Vice Speaker of Parliament Alen Simonyan is proposing to introduce daylight saving time.

He said he has already introduced a bill into circulation.

“It will enable to transition to summer time and save electricity, among others, by using the natural light,” he said in a statement.

The changes envisage advancing clocks by one hour at 02:00 on the last Sunday of March and retarding clocks by one hour at 03:00 on the last Sunday of October.

 

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan


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