Jordan to switch to summertime on Friday

AMMAN — Jordan will switch to summertime (Daylight Saving Time) on Friday, April 1. Clocks will be set forward by 60 minutes as of midnight Thursday, March 31, making the Kingdom three hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+3).

Under a Cabinet decision taken in December 2013, clocks will be set back one hour to mark the start of wintertime on the last Friday of October every year, while they will be set forward one hour on the last Thursday of March every year to mark the start of summertime.