The Moroccan government signed on Friday a draft decree to make daylight savings time permanent.
The government said Morocco would "maintain summer time to avoid repeated changes during the year and... repercussions at several levels", the official news agency MAP reported.
This will make "GMT+1" the official permanent time zone for the North African country all year round.
Avoiding the switch saves "an hour of natural light" and reduces electricity consumption, said the administrative reform minister, Mohammed Ben Abdelkader, quoted by MAP.
The sudden change is being adopted two days before Morocco would have turned the clocks back one hour on Sunday morning to end this year's daylight savings time.
The draft decree is considered "an experiment."
