Egypt's cabinet postponed on Monday the application of a law governing the implementation of daylight saving time, after a poll conducted revealed a desire to cancel it.
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb ordered on April 11 conducting a poll over whether or not to implement daylight saving time.
The cabinet tasked on Monday the concerned ministers with studying the effectiveness of applying the law in question in the coming years, the statement read. It added that the law would be amended.
The cabinet had announced that daylight saving time will be implemented starting April 30, citing a law issued last year which entails that daylight saving time begins on the last Thursday of every April and elapses at the start of the holy month of Ramadan.
Egypt's Electricity Ministry stressed that daylight saving time does not "tangibly" save electricity, according to the cabinet's statement.
