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Moroccan Opposition Party Calls for Resumption of Winter Time

Moroccan Opposition Party Calls for Resumption of Winter Time
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Moroccan Opposition Party Calls for Resumption of Winter Time

Moroccan Opposition Party Calls for Resumption of Winter Time

A Moroccan opposition party has called on the government to suspend the all-year daylight saving time.

This demand came in the form of a bill submitted by the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PMA) deputies to the parliament's first Chamber, about three months after the government's sudden decision to maintain the daylight saving time throughout the year.

The move has drawn criticism, but the government argued that the measure helps reduce electricity consumption and maintain energy security.

According to the bill proposed by the PMA, "the government decision caused upset after adopting a timing that does not fit the existing infrastructure in various regions of the Kingdom, especially in rural areas."

It stressed that the government is required to provide a deep scientific study that explains the impact of this timing on the various aspects of citizens' lives, away from the non-convincing argument of energy efficiency, as citizens are aware of the significant increase in electricity consumption caused by the adoption of the daylight saving time.

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Explorer: Sonar Image Was Rock Formation, Not Amelia Earhart Plane

A statue of Amelia Earhart at the US Capitol. Nathan Howard / GETTY IMAGES/AFP
A statue of Amelia Earhart at the US Capitol. Nathan Howard / GETTY IMAGES/AFP
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Explorer: Sonar Image Was Rock Formation, Not Amelia Earhart Plane

A statue of Amelia Earhart at the US Capitol. Nathan Howard / GETTY IMAGES/AFP
A statue of Amelia Earhart at the US Capitol. Nathan Howard / GETTY IMAGES/AFP

A sonar image suspected of showing the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed American aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, has turned out to be a rock formation.

Deep Sea Vision (DSV), a South Carolina-based firm, released the blurry image in January captured by an unmanned submersible of what it said may be Earhart's plane on the seafloor.

Not so, the company said in an update on Instagram this month, AFP reported.

"After 11 months the waiting has finally ended and unfortunately our target was not Amelia's Electra 10E (just a natural rock formation)," Deep Sea Vision said.

"As we speak DSV continues to search," it said. "The plot thickens with still no evidence of her disappearance ever found."

The image was taken by DSV during an extensive search in an area of the Pacific to the west of Earhart's planned destination, remote Howland Island.

Earhart went missing while on a pioneering round-the-world flight with navigator Fred Noonan.

Her disappearance is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in aviation lore, fascinating historians for decades and spawning books, movies and theories galore.

The prevailing belief is that Earhart, 39, and Noonan, 44, ran out of fuel and ditched their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in the Pacific near Howland Island while on one of the final legs of their epic journey.

Earhart, who won fame in 1932 as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, took off on May 20, 1937 from Oakland, California, hoping to become the first woman to fly around the world.

She and Noonan vanished on July 2, 1937 after taking off from Lae, Papua New Guinea, on a challenging 2,500-mile (4,000-kilometer) flight to refuel on Howland Island, a speck of a US territory between Australia and Hawaii.

They never made it.