answersLogoWhite

0

As of the initial writing of the answer in October 2008, Fiji did not operate a Daylight Savings program.

However, on 10 November 2009, Fiji's Cabinet approved a pilot Daylight Savings to take effect on the 29th of November, 2009 at 2.00am. Cabinet believes that altering the time by instigating a Daylight Savings Time program will help boost the Fijian economy. The change is for 2009/2010 only at this point but Cabinet has amended the Fiji Daylight Savings Act of 1998 to allow for declaring Daylight Savings time in future years. The Fijian clocks will revert to Standard time on Sunday, 25 April 2010 at 3.00 am.

During the late part of the 1990's, in a tussle with other nations grouped along the 180 meridian, several island nations such as Figi and Tongo experimented with moving their clocks ahead so to claim they were the first country to usher in the new millennium.

These claims were not recognized and in 2000, Fiji ceased it's Daylight Savings program, after finding there were no benefits to it. There had been no alteration of the time standard since that time until this year. Fiji time nominally is +12 hours to GMT.

Update 3 March, 2010

In response to a general disapproval of the Daylight Savings program, Cabinet decided to advance the reversion to Standard Time to 28 March, 2010. While Cabinet still believes there are benefits to the program, parents in particular were objecting because children had to make their way to school in the dark. Ministry of Education responded by moving back school starting times to 9am. This resulted in parents delaying their own arrivals at work. In turn, due to these tardy arrivals, businesses leaders and organizations were advocating starting at 9am instead of 8am.

Cabinet announced that Daylight Savings will resume 24 October, 2010 and revert to Standard Time on an unspecified date in March 2011.

User Avatar

Wiki User

15y ago

What else can I help you with?