This coming Sunday many of us will be changing our clocks back 1 hour for daylight savings. For many of us, including myself, it means getting another hour of sleep. Although I generally enjoy this extra time, there was a period last year where I didn’t enjoy it at all.
Most of you who have been following me on this site know that I am now married to a Moroccan woman. She is with me in my home country now but the process to bring her to my country was long and difficult (see my previous posts by clicking here). So what this meant was after I was married, I spent over a year with my wife in a (LDR) long distance relationship.
For those who are in or who have been in a LDR, they understand how difficult it is to be in this type of relationship. Although we messaged, phone call and even video call, it isn’t quite the same as being with someone. Added to this is the time difference to Morocco
Now from my home to Morocco is typically a 5 hour time difference. Which means at 12pm my time, it is 5pm in Morocco. So last year Morocco decided not to participate in the daylight savings. What this meant was when I flipped the clocks back 1 hour, the time difference was now 6 hours.
To some of you, your probably thinking, what’s the big deal? It’s only another hour. That is true but let me give you an example of how things can get messed up with the hour difference. Let’s say my wife goes to bed at 11pm and I come home at 5pm. On a 5 hour time difference, I can come home and speak to my wife before she goes to bed. Once you move this to 6 hours either I need to come home earlier or she needs to sleep later. Either option means a sacrifice has to be made. We ended up just trying to speak whenever we had free time but we both felt the extra hour.
Why did Morocco do this? I really don’t know. I’m sure there was a benefit and I really hope the country and it’s people are reaping this benefit but I’ll always remember those 5 months when LDR was turned from bad to terrible